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President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, represents the latest in a long line of ambitious attempts to streamline the U.S. federal government and address fiscal inefficiencies....
There are some names that are sacred heroes in American military history, such as Alvin York and Audie Murphy, men with charming virtue who fought in "good wars." But since the American defeat in Vietnam, war has become distinctly complicated, and so too has the...
The short-lived Assad dynasty has a complex history that ironically came to power by participating in a series of coups that ultimately established the family’s leadership in 1971. Bashar’s father, Hafez, was a key player in the 1963 Syrian Coup d’Etat that brought...
