Democrat Candidates Election 2020

On June 28, 2009, democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a military coup. In response to Zelaya’s push for a poll to gauge public interest in constitutional changes, the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the military to arrest him. He was then sent to Costa Rica in his pajamas. The coup led to…

The “IT For IDF” conference in Rishon LeZion, just south of Tel Aviv, brought together tech firms from across the world to support the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and beyond. Many of the assembled companies are not household names in the United States, but several multinational firms — like Nokia, Dell, and Canon —…

For more than a decade, the U.S. had a significant counterterrorism partnership with Niger, with nearly 1,000 American troops stationed at two airbases: one near the capital in the populated south of the country, and another, on the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert, used largely as a base for American drones. That partnership came to…

In partnership with This investigation, conducted by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is part of the Gaza Project, a collaboration involving 50 journalists from 13 organizations coordinated by Forbidden Stories The clock had not yet struck midnight on October 9, when Said Al-Taweel fell into a deep sleep in his office in al-Ghefari Tower, Gaza…

To hear lawyer Christopher G. Michel tell it, the case against Richard Glossip is straightforward. Glossip, who has been on death row in Oklahoma for more than two decades for the brutal 1997 murder of his boss, is clearly guilty, Michel says, and there is no reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to stand in…

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, this week likened his organization’s Project 2025 manifesto to a sprawling menu at a chain restaurant. “I like to refer to it as sort of the menu from Cheesecake Factory,” he said of a document that calls for outlawing pornography and withdrawing FDA approval for abortion medications, among…

I never knew my uncle. Marvin Risen, my father’s brother, died long before I was born. He was an FBI agent in Nashville and was killed in a plane crash in 1943. But decades later, when I was growing up, something about Marvin’s death still troubled my family. My parents often talked about how they…

The messaging app Signal is described by security professionals as utilizing the gold standard of cryptography. Unlike many competitors, its default is end-to-end encryption — and on top of that, the app minimizes the amount of information it stores about users. This makes it a powerful communication tool for those seeking a private and secure means of chatting, whether…

During a United Nations Security Council meeting this week, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield launched a full-throated condemnation of Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital on Monday. The attack was a part of a Russian bombing campaign that killed more than 30 Ukrainian civilians. “We’re here today because Russia … attacked a children’s hospital,” Thomas-Greenfield…