Earl O'Garro

There is a number a man ought to be made to look at. Three hundred and fifty-two billion dollars, since the founding of the State of Israel — that is what the Congressional Research Service and the Council on Foreign Relations have, between them, totaled — of which two hundred and sixty-three billion was military aid: bombs, fighter aircraft, the iron domes that protect a country whose own iron grip on Gaza we are then asked, by the same Prime Minister, to also pay for. In th

A free people cannot indefinitely outsource the value of its currency to men in suits, regardless of their party. Whatever side wins this fight on Constitution Avenue, the enduring fight is older and harder.

There is a school in Minab, in the south of Iran, that is no longer there. A missile is reported to have killed more than a hundred and fifty people inside it — most of them, the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission noted in March, schoolgirls between the ages of seven and twelve. The detail is not decorative; it is the floor of the argument. Whatever Benjamin Netanyahu says he is doing in Iran — and he has said, on the record, that he "crushed the Iranian regime's

There is, in this country, a building on Constitution Avenue that has come to mean what we will not say aloud. Its renovation cost a billion dollars more than promised — asbestos and sinkholes, we were told, the price of fixing what no one had thought to repair — and last week, on a Friday, the Department of Justice quietly closed its investigation into the man who signed the contracts. By Sunday, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina had withdrawn his objection to Kevin Wars