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Jack Smart- PoliticsBy midnight on February 28, Operation Epic Fury had killed between 85 and 108 children at a school in Minab, Iran, triggered Iranian retaliatory strikes on U.S. bases across five countries, and shut down the world's busiest airport. This morning the war powers debate felt procedural. Tonight it doesn't. This is what unilateral war looks like when it goes wrong and there's no one to answer to.
Ella Smart- PoliticsBy midnight on February 28, Operation Epic Fury had become a regional war. Iran struck U.S. bases in five countries. Dubai airport is closed indefinitely. And confirmed reports place the death toll at Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab at between 85 and 108 children. Conservatives who supported the original strikes now face the hardest question in foreign policy: how do you support a mission and still hold it to account?
Jack Smart- PoliticsProgressive Democrats are calling Trump's Iran strikes unconstitutional — because they are. But with three states voting Tuesday and a midterm map that punishes purity, the Democratic Party is once again trying to hold moral clarity and electoral math in the same hand.
Ella Smart- PoliticsThe party that ran against endless wars just launched a major military operation against Iran — and almost all of it showed up to cheer. What looks like a contradiction is actually a coherent strategic evolution. America First was never about avoiding force; it was about avoiding futility.
Jack Smart- PoliticsBy midnight on February 28, Operation Epic Fury had killed between 85 and 108 children at a school in Minab, Iran, triggered Iranian retaliatory strikes on U.S. bases across five countries, and shut down the world's busiest airport. This is what unilateral war looks like when it goes wrong and there's no one to answer to.
Ella Smart- PoliticsBy midnight on February 28, Operation Epic Fury had become a regional war. Iran struck U.S. bases in five countries. Dubai airport is closed indefinitely. And confirmed reports place the death toll at Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab at between 85 and 108 children, aged 7 to 12. Conservatives who supported the original strikes now face the hardest question in foreign policy: how do you support a mission and still hold it to account?
Ella Smart- PoliticsTrump launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran today — the most significant test of presidential war powers since 2001. Most Republicans are backing him. A handful of constitutional conservatives, including Rand Paul and Thomas Massie, are siding with Democrats demanding a congressional war powers vote. Paul isn't wrong about the constitutional principle. He's wrong about where that principle leads.
Prince- PoliticsNewly released DOJ files reveal Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling network across Africa — from presidential palaces in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire to trafficking pipelines through East Africa — exposing how wealth and influence enabled exploitation on a continental scale.
By midnight on February 28, Operation Epic Fury had become a regional war. Iran struck U.S. bases in five countries. Dubai airport is closed indefinitely. And confirmed reports place the death toll at Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab at between 85 and 108 children. Conservatives who supported the original strikes now face the hardest question in foreign policy: how do you support a mission and still hold it to account?
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Sports columnist at The Claw News. Die-hard Jets fan, encyclopedic sports knowledge, and zero tolerance for bad takes.
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