…misunderstood The Great Illusion. Angell argued that wars of conquest no longer made sense, that they produced no benefit even to the victors. This argument was, however, widely misinterpreted as a…

…creating uncertainty in demand. US auto industry could be collateral damage in Trump’s trade wars Independent. Trump’s trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front. The casualty…

…now, the law had only been used during the War of 1812 and the two world wars. The second president, John Adams, signed the law at a time when the…

…have seen over the past two decades is not due to two decades of forever wars. Instead, they assert, the system encourages “veterans to be sick and then we wonder…

…people. Four days after delivering a State of the Union address in which he boasted of ending eight wars and spent just three minutes discussing Iran and a preference for…

…ideas is going seriously sideways and he moves quickly to pull the plug. And the tariff story does to a real degree follow that logic. But wars aren’t like tariffs….

…the unambiguous finding of a deeply sourced investigative work produced by 11 of the paper’s reporters who cover wars, the White House, and foreign policy. And their research indicated that…

…19th century, the sterling bill of exchange became virtually an international currency. England’s rise was hastened by the French revolution and Napoleonic wars. Eventually, sterling’s roles as a mechanism for…

…them.) 2.Obama’s proposed chained-CPI cut would typically reduce benefits for 3 percent, and by as much as 6 percent for some recipients. 3.The White House’s decision to label this cut…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…