Dan Rather anchored the ‘CBS Evening News’ for over 20 years, starting on March 9, 1981. But he always seemed more in his element as a reporter, and now as a news analyst on social media.
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An analysis of one major effort shows how to get Democrats and Republicans to agree to spend billions of dollars on a decades-long environmental restoration project.
The greatest satirists do more than expose hypocrisy. They reshape how citizens understand power and civic responsibility.
European leaders are learning they cannot rely on Washington, and that the US will act against their interests and at their economic expense.
Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.
Using ‘axis’ to describe a grouping of countries tends to link them to a sordid past – but not always.
The former US vice-president is widely regarded as the driving force behind George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq and the US War on Terror.
The 2005 hurricane was a disaster made worse by a lack of coordination and communication among governments and emergency leadership on the ground.
Negotiations are possible between the US and Iran, but they will neither be easy nor likely to produce more than limited outcomes.
It might sound right that if you do what your boss says, you’re doing a good job. But it’s different if your obligations are to the public interest and the Constitution.
There are three pending criminal cases and four people the US will not release but also cannot put on trial.
The mechanics of upending American democracy would entail surmounting a thick tangle of constitutional, bureaucratic, legal and political obstacles.
The Department of Homeland Security’s massive bureaucracy has many critical national security functions and spends billions of taxpayer dollars seeking to keep the nation safe.
The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period of just days.
From ancient Rome to modern times, pelting has been a performance of crowd defiance in all its joyous, furious and lawbreaking glory.
The US response to 9/11 included a declaration that America would destroy its enemies. The effort took decades, and thousands of lives on both sides, and never really succeeded.
A former executive director of the National Governors Association explains what it is about certain governors that makes them less suited for the presidency.
The former Italian prime minister died on June 12, 2023, at the age of 86. Throughout his terms in office he cultivated closer ties with the US – with mixed results.
The beginnings of Iraq’s sectarian civil war, the failures of its US-built political system, and the struggle for civilians attempting to survive chaos and violence are here in these 2004 interviews.
The Bush administration invaded Iraq with plans for it to become a democracy. But according to some social science measures, the country isn’t any more democratic than it was before 2003.
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