President Donald Trump has once again pulled off another feat of political strategery that Democrats can’t possibly match: He has created another news cycle that’s largely concerned with whether or not his brain is broken.
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The chaotic and conflict-ridden Middle East is a scene of American failure. In recent decades, the United States has lavished more resources and attention there than on any other region. It has incurred more American military deaths in Iraq than in any other war since the Vietnam War. The current state of the region, and of U.S. influence in it, doesn’t come close to representing a worthwhile return on that huge investment.
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Imagine, briefly, that you’re charged with coordinating a small town’s response to disaster, developing contingency plans and staying in close contact with local agencies. For the last few months, you’ve been working with county health officials to try to contain a pandemic, despite a statewide explosion of cases. These last few days have featured a freak heat wave, too, and you have no idea how to deal with that since it happens so rarely—plus, crowding sick and elderly people into cooling centers could trigger a deadly disease outbreak. Читать дальше...
On July 11, MarketWatch published a letter, presumably real, from a reader complaining that she and her husband didn’t qualify for a stimulus payment because they make too much money. Said the upset letter writer:
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