In early 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a major offensive across South Vietnam. The U.S. embassy in Saigon was breached. The imperial capital of Hue was overrun. Eventually, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces defeated the attacks–in military terms, the Tet Offensive was a rout. But the military terms hardly mattered: Tet [...]
The White House has reacted in full damage control mode to the release of classified documents detailing the U.S. military’s struggles in Afghanistan, which the New York Times calls “in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.” To see the New York Times summary of the documents, click here. To see the Guardian’s coverage, [...]
Michael Scherer and Kate Pickert join me for this week’s podcast:
*Updated, July 27: TIME’s Elizabeth Dias has this report: The Department of Education has poured more gas on the for-profit career college fire. Today it unveiled proposed regulations designed to protect for-profit students from debt traps and taxpayers from footing the bill when students default on their loans. For-profit schools must demonstrate how they prepare [...]
–With Arizona’s new immigration law set to take effect July 29, its targets are getting out of Dodge. –The chief electrician aboard the Deepwater Horizon testified today that the rig’s fire alarm was partly disabled the night of the explosion. –You should check out these photographs taken aboard the drilling rigs attempting to repair the [...]
One of this nation’s great reporters has died. Back in 2000, the writer Rick Bragg eulogized the death of another accomplished scribbler, 92-year-old Milt Sosin, by noting that Sosin’s heart had stopped the previous Sunday. “And only then, his pen,” Bragg wrote. Much the same can be said for Schorr, 93, who I heard just [...]
Go ahead and have a chuckle that the first city poised to permit industrial marijuana production is in the Bay Area–home to Haight-Ashbury, Berkeley moonbats and bongs aplenty. But Oakland’s unprecedented plan is a creative proposal driven by economic and social need, not reefer-addled pols. It could help close the city’s yawning budget gap, corporatize [...]
I wanted to post this video yesterday, but never had time to report out the identity of its author. Thankfully, CNN’s Peter Hamby, the network’s man for all things South Carolina, did the legwork. It turns out that this is not an official campaign product of Alvin Greene, the Democratic party’s unexpected candidate for the [...]
