| How Trump’s split-screen presidency transfixes a divided US Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:30 PM PST ![How Trump's split-screen presidency transfixes a divided US]( "How Trump's split-screen presidency transfixes a divided US") On one side of the screen, President Trump sits pensively, leaning forward, tapping his fingers together. Next to him, a smiling Kim Jong-un takes his seat. On the other side of the screen sits Michael Cohen.
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| What restrains India, Pakistan from nuclear war Posted: 27 Feb 2019 01:18 PM PST ![What restrains India, Pakistan from nuclear war]( "What restrains India, Pakistan from nuclear war") One lesson of modern war is this: Watch your tongue. India and Pakistan appear to have absorbed this lesson as seen so far during their latest military flare-up. In retaliatory strikes following a Feb. 14 terrorist attack in disputed Kashmir, each has used an important word to describe their strikes on each other: "surgical." Translation: We know better than to kill civilians on purpose.
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| It’s 40 feet tall and concrete. Is ‘Peace Cross’ a civic or Christian symbol? Posted: 27 Feb 2019 01:12 PM PST ![It's 40 feet tall and concrete. Is 'Peace Cross' a civic or Christian symbol?]( "It's 40 feet tall and concrete. Is 'Peace Cross' a civic or Christian symbol?") There are a lot of complicated and painful reasons why Michael "Mikey" Weinstein decided to stand on the steps of the Supreme Court on Wednesday and speak out against the modest support a Maryland municipality provides for its massive World War I memorial, a century-old 40-foot cross. A lot of these reasons have to do with what could be called the emotional burdens of history – both his own experiences as a Jewish American veteran of the United States Air Force and those of many other Jews who've lived in majority-Christian countries throughout the span of time. It's history, too, that makes the prominently placed concrete cross in Bladensburg, a town of 10,000 just outside the nation's capital, such an important and even cherished war monument for many of its local residents, most of whom fully support spending some taxpayer dollars to maintain it on municipal property.
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| Cohen calls Trump a ‘con man’ – but seems unlikely to change many minds Posted: 27 Feb 2019 11:22 AM PST ![Cohen calls Trump a 'con man' – but seems unlikely to change many minds]( "Cohen calls Trump a 'con man' – but seems unlikely to change many minds") So many things about Donald Trump's presidency have been unprecedented, atypical, norm-busting – it sometimes feels like we've run out of adjectives to describe it.
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