7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (895+ words) The following post is adapted from an article published July 25 by MS NOW. The billions of dollars the Saudi monarchy has gifted President Donald Trump’s family have paid off. Trump has caved to Saudi demands to provide the Kingdom precisely…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (645+ words) So why did Trump restart the war? As Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan write in their riveting new book, Regime Change, “Unlike recent Presidents, Trump had shown he was entirely comfortable using extraordinary presidential powers on a whim.” Those extraordinary…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1212+ words) “There is no spoon,” a young child tells Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, in one of the most iconic scenes in The Matrix. The world we have been programmed to believe is real is just an illusion. I thought of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1974+ words) I have been either very busy or very lazy the past few weeks. I can’t decide which. I have done dozens of interviews on the US-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon. But I haven’t done much writing on the war....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (420+ words) This article was originally published May 28 by MS Now. Using plutonium from nuclear bombs as fuel for nuclear reactors is a discredited, rejected, dangerous idea as old as the nuclear age. But it is back again, as a group of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (493+ words) Robert Kagan was a vocal advocate for invading Iraq and Iran. He wanted the Iraq War to be the beginning of serial regime-change in the Middle East. He believed that it would strengthen Israel, create a string of pro-American democracies…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (981+ words) On May 4, thirty Member of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking a very simple question: Why do administration officials refuse to answer questions about Israel’s nuclear weapons? At first, this seemed to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1303+ words) In April of 2003, three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, Terry Gross asked me on her NPR show, Fresh Air, to explain how the United States had gotten itself into that war. I told her the answer was not complicated…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (371+ words) She’s right. This is a big deal. So, taking full advantage of the guest spot that Bill Press has graciously granted me while he is on sabbatical in Italy, I took a deep dive this week into something that impacts…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1904+ words) On Monday, I filled in for veteran Washington journalist, Bill Press, for his twice-weekly podcast. It was a pleasure to have as my first guest, Rob Malley, one of the top Iran experts in the country. Rob served as a…...