2026-03-07 16:00:02
You can’t accuse the US of mission creep one week into a war, especially when the initial goals for Operation Epic Fury were so broadly defined as to be unknowable. But taking President Donald Trump’s four-to-five-week timeframe for hostilities as a guide, the launch of a Kurdish ground insurgency to help bring about regime change would qualify.
2026-03-07 08:00:06
For the first time since 1945, a US submarine has sunk an enemy warship. When the Iranian navy ship IRIS Dena went down, it was 2,000 miles from home and seven nautical miles from Sri Lankan waters. Both those figures are of importance, for different reasons.
2026-03-07 01:30:08
An estimated 130,985,000 native-born Americans had jobs in February, according to the employment report released Friday. That’s 128,000 more than in the month a year earlier — the best comparison because these numbers aren’t adjusted for seasonal employment patterns — a 0.1% increase. That is better than nothing but a far cry from the huge gains in native-born employment that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was reporting last year and that the White House was trumpeting as evidence of the success
2026-03-07 00:00:03
Beijing and New Delhi are trying to keep their distance from the attacks in the Persian Gulf, but that may prove impossible.
2026-03-06 23:30:02
As secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem had a thing for the camera. On any given day, she could be seen sitting on a horse, donning a cowboy hat at the border, or wielding a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest (incorrectly) in some city.
2026-03-06 22:00:02
Skepticism is warranted on the war and market behavior. Call it the Hume Doctrine.
