The Fog of Trump is lifting
The Fog of War : The concept is traced to Clausewitz and neatly captures the tactical, and moral, uncertainty of decision-making in the heat of battle.
American politics between June 2015 and January 2021 was shrouded in what you might call the Fog of Trump.
Itâs lifting.
You can tell by what policymakers are arguing about: Is inflation transitory or a longer-term threat? What counts as infrastructure spending? Should we start worrying again about the national debt?
We are arguing, in other words, about
public policy. Normal things. Not ridiculous notions like a Muslim travel ban, the barbarous forced separation of children from their parents, or what to do when the president runs a privately held company that does business just blocks from the White House as well as in foreign capitals.
Illustrated | Getty Images, iStock House Democrats, who led an angry charge against the Trump administration s treatment of migrant children, have taken a much quieter tack since concerns began emerging about conditions at some of the emergency shelters set up by the Biden administration to deal with minors at the southern border,
The New York Times reported Monday. Their reasoning, Democrats told the
Times, is the Trump policies were deliberately cruel, while the Biden team, trying hard to deal with a bad hand, will be receptive to backchannel worries from allies.
Maybe Democrats are right about this change of heart. The problem is the concrete circumstances of many unaccompanied migrant children continue to appall.
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Manhattan s district attorney recently convened a grand jury that is expected to weigh whether to indict former President Donald Trump and other executives at the Trump Organization, two people familiar with the matter told
The grand jury will meet three times a week for six months, and will likely hear evidence from other investigations beyond the Trump case, the
Post reports. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. started the probe into Trump and his business in 2018, and the new grand jury suggests he found evidence of a crime committed by Trump or someone else in the Trump Organization, the
Samuel E. Wright, the actor who brought Sebastian the crab to life in Disney s
News of Wright s death was confirmed by a Facebook page for his hometown of Montgomery, New York,
TMZ reported. Sam was an inspiration to us all and along with his family established the Hudson Valley Conservatory, the post said. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Wright was best known for voicing Sebastian in
The Little Mermaid, performing the iconic songs Under the Sea and Kiss the Girl. Under the Sea won the Oscar for Best Original Song, and Kiss the Girl was also nominated. Wright returned to voice Sebastian numerous other times, including in the direct-to-video sequels
The United States has reached a significant COVID-19 pandemic milestone.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data confirmed on Tuesday that half of U.S. adults, or more than 129 million Americans, are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, ABC News reports. Additionally, about 164 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC.
This comes after President Biden said earlier this month he was aiming for 160 million American adults to be fully vaccinated and for 70 percent of U.S. adults to have received at least one vaccine dose by July 4, which he said would be a serious step towards a return to normal.