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Barrier Status: ‘none’ Among the many questions still unanswered following Friday’s coup attempt in Turkey is one that has national-security implications for the United States and for the rest of the world: How secure are the American hydrogen bombs stored at a Turkish airbase? The Incirlik Airbase, in southeast Turkey, houses NATO’s largest nuclear-weapons storage…
“What a memorable day!” wrote a middle-class Hamburg housewife in her diary on Jan. 30, 1933. She had just watched the parade of torch-bearing storm troopers celebrate Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power in Germany. Frau Solmitz did not, however, extol only Hitler. She waxed melodic about Hitler’s cabinet, in which there were just three…
As a chorus of prominent Fox News women have gone public defending Roger Ailes against the wave of sexual-harassment allegations sparked by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit, the network’s biggest star, Megyn Kelly, has been conspicuously silent. Kelly’s refusal to join in Ailes’s orchestrated defense has led to speculation about why. Now we have the…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan places the blame for this weekend’s failed coup attempt on an Islamic preacher and one-time ally, Fethullah Gulen (above), who now resides in Pennsylvania with a green card. Erdogan is demanding the U.S. extradite Gulen, citing prior extraditions by the Turkish government of terror suspects demanded by the U.S.: “Now we’re saying deliver this guy…
This is Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images On Monday, she began sharing some of the racist and misogynistic tweets people have lobbed her way in the wake of the movie’s release. View image on Twitter Follow Leslie Jones ✔@Lesdoggg I just don’t understand 7:30 PM – 18 Jul 2016 · Manhattan, NY, United States…
Had there been a male contraceptive pill in 1976, I probably wouldn’t be here to write this. That was the year when, after my mum–may she rest in peace–had been on the pill for 12 years, health worries made her doctor tell her to come off it. “She said to the doctor, ‘I’ll get pregnant’,”…
All the convention’s a stage, and speakers are merely players. At this week’s Republican National Convention, one former entertainer and political farceur has already pushed to the center in a winking game that alternates between seriousness and an old television persona: Stephen Colbert. The Atlantic‘s coverage of the Republican and Democratic nominations for the U.S….
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence went to go see Mulan with his daughters. He thought it was gonna be a nice, innocent time! He thought, perhaps, that like most other Disney movies, it would teach his daughters important life lessons about what it means…
It’s not so much a platform as it is the Republican Party’s a suicide note. The Republican National Convention is underway, and it’s a regular “who’s who” of “where the hell is everyone?â Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new … The Not- Ready-For-Primetime Party | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS –…
Photo Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, in 2014. Mr. King was criticized on TV and on Twitter for questioning the contributions of nonwhite “subgroups” to civilization. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, questioned the historical contributions of nonwhite “subgroups” during an appearance on MSNBC on Monday, igniting swift…