Report: US Conducting Covert Operations to Get Tankers Through Strait of Hormuz

"Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda": Hillary Clinton Gives Flippant Answer When Pressed On Patriot Act Support Hillary Clinton attempted to wave off criticism of her post-9/11 votes this week, telling a Columbia University audience that Monday-morning quarterbacking carries its own bias and that relitigating the Patriot Act does little good. The former secretary of state, who teaches crisis decision-making at Columbia's Institute of Global Politics, was pressed by a moderator on whether Americans were "served well" by the Patriot Act and the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and on what she remembered...

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort entirely misdiagnosed the problem with the airline industry, leading to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

Russia & Ukraine Declare Ceasefires That Will Begin On Different Days Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia said on Monday that it would observe a ceasefire with Ukraine on May 8 and May 9 to observe Victory Day, when Russia celebrates the Soviet Union's victory against Nazi Germany in World War II, but it’s unclear if the truce will hold, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by declaring a ceasefire that will start earlier. "As of today, there has been no official appeal to Ukraine regarding the modality of a cessation of hostilities...