Новости за 26.09.2017

For two decades, the Pentagon operated under a simple doctrine: We must always be able to fight two wars at once. But in 2009, the Pentagon started to rethink its strategy. Since 9/11, the nature of world conflict had changed; the military needed to be able to fight more than two wars, and to be prepared for unconventional threats. “We have learned through painful experience that the wars we fight are seldom the wars that we planned,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters at the time.

Barack Obama delivered the finest speech of his presidency on March 7, 2015. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, and the nation’s first black president stood before the Edmund Pettus Bridge to offer a masterful affirmation—of the heroes who marched for freedom, of their righteous cause, and of the underlying “American instinct that led these young men and women to pick up the torch and cross this bridge.” “It’s the idea held by generations of citizens... Читать дальше...

The past year has seen the greatest panic over Russia’s influence on U.S. politics since the end of the Cold War. From the hacking of DNC servers during the presidential campaign to links between Russian officials and Trump’s team, Democrats have leapt at the idea that Trump’s victory resulted from Russian machinations, even though there remains little evidence that the hacks decisively affected the election. Rather than revising their platform to appeal to today’s working class, Democrats have... Читать дальше...

In the first and only debate in the GOP primary run-off to fill Attorney General’s Jeff Sessions’s Senate seat, Luther Strange had one main talking point: “The president’s endorsing me.” As his opponent, the right-wing judge Roy Moore, announced his commitment to countering “political correctness and social experimentation,” cutting taxes and regulations, and returning “virtue and morality” to the United States, Strange returned again and again to the fact that Donald Trump was supporting his bid for the Senate. Читать дальше...

Calling out New York City’s aristocracy is in vogue, even among the aristocrats. Thanks to the rise of the city’s own born-and-bred Donald Trump, not to mention a Great Recession caused by Wall Street greed, the conscience of the socially liberal cosmopolitan elite has never been heavier. The growing awareness of America’s seemingly intractable class divide has reportedly driven some in the upper echelons of New York society to hide their wealth by taking price tags off their purchases, so their household staff don’t have to see them. Читать дальше...