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The anti-Maga talkshow: after 70 years, PBS’s The Open Mind still has it

For decades, the TV programme has made a quiet case for depth, civility and political conversation that doesn’t insult your intelligence

The Guardian - US

CNN’s data guru says Trump’s approval rating is ‘as low as Death Valley’

President’s net approval rating with independents at this point in his second term is lower than the approval ratings for both Richard Nixon and George W Bush during the same period of their second terms

The Independent UK

How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than today, and the amount of…

The Conversation

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Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage

If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences

The Guardian - US

‘Impulsive and emotional’: Trump tosses traditional wartime presidency blueprint

President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said. Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based…

Roll Call

The Iran War Has Already Hurt Oil Production More Than the '70s Energy Crisis Did

The conflict is squeezing global supply and pushing prices up.

Reason

Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America's Achilles Heel in Hormuz

With the national debt at $39 trillion and dollar dominance already at a 30-year low, the petrodollar system is more visible—and threatened—than ever.

Fortune

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Want to understand why Trump is still bombing Iran? Look to Nixon and Vietnam

Richard Nixon’s strategy was about shielding his own reputation. Now Trump needs a face-saving exit of his own

The Guardian - US

Watergate journalist Bob Woodward to lift lid on Washington secrets in new memoir

‘Woodward has kept notes, transcripts and files of all of his interviews with the most important players in Washington,’ says publisher Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

Trump tours Graceland and professes love for Elvis but seems stumped when asked his favorite song by The King

At Graceland, Trump asked reporters if they had a question for him about the late singer, and was inevitably quizzed on his favorite Elvis Presley track

The Independent UK

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

Is United States President Donald Trump lurching toward decline and fall? Will he and his MAGA movement reprise Lyndon B. Johnson’s story, when the quagmire of the Vietnam War took the Democratic president out of the 1968 election and gave Republican Richard Nixon the opening he needed to defeat the…

The Conversation

Trump’s war language is aggressive and extreme. It also offers some insight into his thinking

US President Donald Trump speaks in a way unlike any of his predecessors. His distinctive and highly recognisable style may even play a role in his appeal to his political base. Since the infamous Access Hollywood tapes, he has got away with saying things none of his predecessors would have…

The Conversation

Meet the past FBI directors who make Kash Patel’s problems look like child’s play

FBI director Kash Patel has faced backlash from his mass firings at the agency, to use of government planes for private trips

The Independent UK

Trump faces a ‘personal Vietnam’ in Iran

He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, Vietnam

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Trump’s war in Iran marks the culmination of his imperial presidency

The path to this reckless war was paved by the collapse of accountability in Washington

Reason

Trump's New Tariff Plan Still Asserts a Crisis That Does Not Exist

The president’s invocation of Section 122 conflates a trade deficit with a balance-of-payments deficit.

The Guardian - US

Democrats must defund Trump’s imperial war

Trump is wielding imperial powers created by a decades-long master plan. The only way to stop his war is to cut off the money

The Independent UK

Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield who exposed Watergate tapes dies at 99

Butterfield believed he’d had a hand in the president’s fate

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The Times of India

Inside the paradox of Mexico's never-ending war on drugs

The decades-long war on drugs, initiated by Nixon, has devolved into a geopolitical quagmire. The recent death of cartel leader El Mencho, hailed as a victory, quickly led to widespread chaos, demonstrating how successes in combating drug trafficking often breed deeper crises and more violence across Latin America.

The Conversation

Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted…

Reason

The Secret Phone Recordings of Henry Kissinger, a 'Habitual Liar'

A new collection of transcripts underscores the vast scope of Kissinger's systematic deception.

Fortune

America’s $901 billion trade deficit is like ‘chronically high cholesterol,’ top economist says, and Trump’s 150-day tariffs are the wrong medicine

Trump’s trade policy risks confusing one problem with a much bigger crisis, according to Harvard professor Gita Gopinath.

Reason

Trump Can't Filibuster Through the 6-Year Itch

Those expecting fireworks at tonight's State of the Union will have to sit through the tedious resume-padding of a flagging president.

Fortune

Drug use on the rise as U.S. spends $1 trillion in War on Drugs and cartel leaders drive violence in Mexico

The death of El Mencho decapitates one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, but there’s a whole lot more sustaining the drug industry nowadays.

Reason

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