Trump selects GOP chairman Reince Priebus to be chief of staff and Stephen Bannon to be the chief strategist. [Link] Trump says he will deport illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds immediately. He believes there are between 2 and 3 million illegal immigrants...
I'm writing to tell you some things that you know, but I fear are never quite discussed in precisely the relevant terms in Washington DC. To put it very simply there is a massive regional civil war in the Middle East right now. Forget blame and all, but just here are...
Patrick Cockburn writes that the combined forces invading Mosul are bogged down, and that due to large numbers of civilians trapped there the U.S. air power cannot just flatten the place as they did in Ramadi. Perhaps there will still be enough ISIS left in Mosul and...
