Did Robert McNamara know Vietnam was unwinnable?
A new biography asks the same question – and looks into a potential affair with Jackie
Vietnam
Tuesday
Wednesday
The dog that haunts Russ Benzin
Skipper was hyperalert, Russ vigilant but pensive
Monday
Tim Walz’s military crime is all in the cover-up
Why does he feel the need to hide behind the idea of it as a way to shelter himself from political and policy criticism or question his judgment?
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Monday
Joe Biden’s grapple with senility is the GOP’s 2024 message
In Hanoi, he asserted American dominance in his typical way: representing the nation as a tired, hollowed-out shell of its former greatness
Tuesday
Pelosi is right to put China on notice
For all his bluster, Xi Jinping doesn’t want a war
Thursday
China: one bully to rule them all
Beijing seeks not just regional but global dominance
Wednesday
Kamala Havana?
Why is it so hard to believe that America’s diplomats are falling victim to mass hysteria?
Tuesday
Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?
Alas, here we are, doomed to history repeating because of Biden’s disregard of all of the lessons of the previous debacle
Sunday
The differences between British and American readers
The New York Times is the media institution that plays the most destructive role in American life
Wednesday
The Trump-Kim summit: what we know and what’s useless prattle
Almost everything you can hear, and several things you won ’ t
Wednesday
Smirking, the infamous facial expression of the far-right
Let’s punch away their problematic adoration of Trump until nothing remains but a hollow shell of the boys they once were
Tuesday
Who is the real Nathan Phillips?
He isn’t a Vietnam veteran
