Twenty-five years after the worst attack on American soil, the country's leaders told two false stories in a single week, and between them turned a national day of mourning into a sales pitch for the …
The president who started a war on a whim has now given it a calendar: November, after the votes are in. "I think war is going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any lon…
Six months into a war he said would last "four to five weeks," the man who started it is now describing it as "small potatoes." "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's …
An administration running out of money for a war it never got permission to start has reached, without telling anyone, into the science budget meant to cure disease. "This secretive attempt to siphon …
The U.S. military never targets civilians. It only ever accidentally hits them, at scale, repeatedly, and then investigates the wreckage of its own claims. "What I can say with 100% confidence is that…
America is at war with a country it says it wants a deal with, and on the same Tuesday it refused negotiations, it dropped a bomb on a wedding. "The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the I…
The president bombed a place that was never hit, with a video no plane filmed, and then told the country the enemy was finished. "Mr. Trump's tweets are laughable, and conditions in Kharg are calm and…
A war fought for the Strait of Hormuz is quietly unmaking the military deterrent meant for the Pacific. "We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in …
The war Trump's own voters are deserting is, it turns out, a boom time for the men who already own the country's refineries. "There is a massive transfer of wealth occurring as billions around the wor…
The Treasury Secretary spent the weekend promising to break a country. Then, at the press conference where he actually did it, he asked why he should. "Why would I want to blow up the global financial…
An administration that calls a foreign government a death machine quietly hands its passport to that same government's agents and books a seat for a dozen of its dissidents. "Iran has requested that I…
A two-month truce is supposed to be a runway toward peace. This one was a countdown to the next threat, and the threat was aimed at a country that has not fired on the United States in two centuries o…
A president who is fighting a war in the Persian Gulf just told his most reliable ally in Asia that he is disappointed it said no, and that he would like to charge it less for being disappointed. "I r…
Five thousand sailors are stranded aboard a floating metal prison, some of them trying to jump overboard. The man who sent them there says the war has not gone on long enough. "Have some sympathy, som…
pentagon, iran war, casualties, hegseth, duckworth The Pentagon quietly changed how it counts the dead, because the truth was getting too heavy to carry. "I don't have the confidence in the Pentagon, …
Iran has proven that controlling 21 miles of water is more powerful than an aircraft carrier. "The Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened through military attacks." — Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, former s…
A U.S. Cabinet secretary celebrates on a Minnesota stage as five million people stop receiving help to buy groceries. "For those of us that love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not…
Pentagon, Politics, Pentagon Pete The Pentagon has found a way to make 900 dead and wounded troops disappear into a spreadsheet labeled "Overseas Operations." "This is certainly designed to conceal th…
trump, munitions, iran, military The United States went to war with Iran and ran out of missiles before it ran out of things to hit. "It takes several years to produce a missile. If you put money into…
An 80-year-old president has spent the better part of his second term acting as his own architect, designer, and interior decorator while the country he was elected to lead faces a war, economic anxie…
A president at war with Iran tells the American public that Iran could not possibly have hacked Minnesota's water systems. "Iran should be so lucky. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minn…
The Pentagon quietly removed four dead soldiers from the Iran war death toll, then called it a data glitch. "The classification of Iran conflict casualties under Overseas Operations is grounded strict…
The House GOP tucked $10 billion for voter suppression inside a war funding bill, then pretended the two things had nothing to do with each other. "Show me how this ends. What's the picture of victory…
The Pentagon erased four dead soldiers from its Iran war casualty list in a single night, then blamed it on a website glitch. "The administration seems to have a real hard time being honest about what…
pentagon, iran war, military, trump The official death toll says 19. A government official says the real number of Americans killed or wounded is far higher, and that the discrepancy is by design. "Of…
The world's most vital oil chokepoint has been reduced to a shooting gallery, and the ceasefire that was supposed to fix it is already dead. "A return to full-scale hostilities would have catastrophic…
The president of the United States threatens to annihilate a country on social media while diplomats scramble behind the scenes to stop the very war he is hyping. "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded …
A country at war with another country is quietly feeding its enemy the names of people who fled it. "Congress made these confidentiality protections mandatory precisely because lives depend on them, a…
israel, iran, trump, netanyahu The United States went to extraordinary lengths to protect Iran's negotiators from assassination, and the country it asked to protect them from was its closest ally in t…
The United States signed a ceasefire with Iran, then bombed Iran. "Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement." — Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 26, 2026 The memorandum of und…
john bolton, trump, classified documents, justice The man who called for war with Iran and North Korea now has federal prosecutors asking for five years in his own country's prison. "None of which we …
For the first time in American history, both chambers of Congress voted to stop a president's unauthorized war. "Regardless of what President Trump says, this measure is binding under the War Powers R…
He signed a surrender document at Versailles, threatened to "drop bombs right smack in the middle of their head" at the G7, and privately lost his mind when he realized nobody believed him. "They've g…
The Justice Department intervened to protect a billionaire's data center from an environmental lawsuit by revealing his AI chatbot helped the military bomb 2,000 targets in Iran. "Grok provides critic…
Trump declared victory in his war with Iran eleven days after starting it. More than two thousand hours later, every single objective remains unmet. "We won. In the first hour it was over." : Donald T…
A president can start a war without Congress, but he cannot stop his own party from eventually turning against it. "I'd say in that part of the world, 'cease-fire' is when you're shooting in a more mo…
Three months into an unauthorized war, the House finally voted to end it. "You either follow the law or you change the law. You can't violate the law." \- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on why he vote…