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Twenty years ago, the United States launched its first wave of attacks against Iraq. The mission to depose Saddam Hussein began with overwhelming popular support at home as Americans rallied to the Bush administration’s insistence that Iraq’s weapons stockpile posed a grave risk to the country and the world at…

A few months ago, I knocked on the front door of a house in El Centro while searching for Republicans to interview for a story. An elderly white man opened the main door of the house but left the screen door closed. I struggled to see him through the screen…

The costs of Alzheimer’s disease – human and financial – are rising sharply in California and nationally, and census projections for America’s rapidly aging population suggest the scope of the disease soon might rival what America saw during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new book looks back at the long-serving FBI director’s devotion to keeping America a white Christian republic and the devastating effect he had

The former president’s dark visions of a looming civil war colour his response to potential indictments and depict the aftermath of an election if he loses, Alex Woodward reports

“What the Fed saw as the big potential threats didn’t materialize, and the threat that did materialize they didn’t see coming,” says Thomas Hogan, a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.

Bolton says the Bush administration's biggest error in Iraq was failing to invade Iran too. That's madness.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said Friday that Bank of America will buy Signature Bank on Monday as other banks face peril

China’s foreign ministry published a 4,000-word analysis entitled US Hegemony and its Perils on 20 February. It’s an indictment of alleged US foreign interference, intimidation and interventions that began 200 years ago.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries.

Happy Monday! Don’t you just hate it when people say that? Ditto Tuesday, Wednesday and every other day. But it’s remarkable how this frightful habit has caught on, chiefly on the part of PRs. It calls to mind the Brit in America who, on being told to have a nice…