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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, announced his retirement from the U.S. military on Wednesday, blaming Trump for shortening his military career. Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient in the Iraq War, had worked at the National Security Council (NSC) and heard the telephone call between …

In my medical training, a fellow physician tried to convince me that my liberal leanings on health care were misguided. While I firmly believed that the government had an important role in providing access to medical care—particularly to the underserved—my colleague argued that the government’s role in, well, anything, should be practically nonexistent. I remained …

On Thursday, the Labor Department announced the economy had added 4.8 million jobs, which in turn led to unemployment falling to 11.1%. According to many, that is a sign the economy is healing from the woes of the coronavirus shutdown. However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) insists that it is not enough. During an interview …

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. …

The United Nations (U.N.) announced Sunday the electric car boom will result in a number of devastating ecological side effects for the planet. While the shift to electric cars reflects ongoing efforts to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, the UN warns that the raw materials used to produce electric car batteries are highly …

One thing governments show us over and over again is their promises are almost always broken. This should concern us greatly since the “war” on COVID-19 will bring many promises from Congress that will never be realized but will cost us a lot of money anyway. Our federal government promised to balance the budget every …

They’re firing the American workers for foreign replacements. One of the major public utilities in the United States is firing hundreds of employees and replacing its IT workforce with contractors affiliated with some of the most egregious abusers of the H1B visa system. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which was founded in 1933 during the Great …

The Minneapolis City Council voted 12-0 on Friday to advance a proposal to dismantle the city’s police department, although the initiative faces numerous hurdles before it can become law. After the killing of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers, the city saw massive rioting and growing calls to “defund” its police force. …

Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will accelerate a crackdown on hate speech — less than an hour after consumer-products giant Unilever announced it was yanking all Facebook ads for the rest of the year. In a striking about-face in a controversy that has increasingly engulfed the social network, Facebook’s 35-year-old boss on Friday said Facebook will …

The US economy may not shake its bad case of the coronavirus for another two and a half years, a new economic forecast warns. The nation is in for a gradual economic recovery from the “depression-like crisis” sparked by the pandemic, with production and employment likely to remain under pressure through the end of 2022, …