Richard Bruce Cheney, the hard-nosed political tactician who wielded enormous influence across multiple Republican administrations and redefined the power of the American vice presidency, has died at the age of 84.  A statement from the Cheney family said he passed away “on the evening of Nov. 3, of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular

The time for illusions has long passed. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, recently made a baseless and frankly bizarre allegation that Christians are being systematically exterminated in Nigeria. It is a dangerous fiction, designed not to save lives but to soften the moral ground for intervention. This is the same script: rehearsed,