Dylan O'DailyDonald Trump Everyone Knew We Were Losing in Afghanistan The Atlantic - David A. GrahamAfghanistan has long been the overshadowed war, eclipsed in public attention by the invasion of Iraq and a dozen other stories. Even so, the American occupation of Afghanistan grinds on, with an end seeming
Dylan O'DailyDonald Trump Donald Trump Is the Mad-King President Our Founders Feared Most Rolling Stone - Andy Kroll WASHINGTON — Three and a half years after candidate Donald Trump bragged he could shoot someone in Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote, a lawyer for …
Dylan O'DailyWar Afghanistan: Documents Show We Were ‘Constantly Lied to’ by U.S. Officials Over ‘Unwinnable’ War The Daily Beast - Jamie Ross The Washington Post has published over 2,000 pages of secret notes of interviews with people who played a direct role in the Afghanistan war, laying …
Dylan O'DailyMilitary History Millions Dead: You Won't Believe the True Horror of the Korean War nationalinterest.org - Darien Cavanaugh Too often the conflict, and the people who fought it, are forgotten.Key point: It was a brutal war that included massacres and war crimes.It’s …
Dylan O'DailyLiberal View Pentagon panicked as US troop affinity for Russia grows: report rawstory.com - Tom Boggioni According to a report from Voice of America, military leaders at the Pentagon are growing increasingly concerned with the popularity of Russian …
Dylan O'DailyOpinion Donald Trump has destroyed American leadership – I'll restore it The Guardian - Elizabeth WarrenThis reckless disregard for the benefits of our alliances comes at a perilous moment For seven decades, America’s strength, security and prosperity have been underpinned by our unmatched network of treaty
Dylan O'DailyOpinion Illuminating Antietam. Remembering America's bloodiest war washingtonexaminer.com - Kevin Carl Petersen On Sept. 13, 1862, as the Union Army marched into the Maryland town of Frederick, Cpl. Barton Mitchell of the 27th Indiana was taking a break in some …
Dylan O'DailyPearl Harbor There Were Many Heroes At Pearl Harbor, But This One Legend Stands Out nationalinterest.org - Warfare History Network His sacrifice lives on.Key point: The burly, humble Navy Cross winner who had led the way for American blacks to take their place in the Allied …
Dylan O'DailyNatural History This May Be the Earliest Known Image of Enslaved Individuals With Cotton smithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz In the mid-19th century, a Georgia plantation owner posed for a photograph alongside a group of enslaved African-Americans. Three of the men tote …
Dylan O'DailyWater Former radioactive site collapses into Detroit River, raising drinking water safety concerns CNN - By Alec Snyder, CNN(CNN) — A site on the Detroit River that was used to produce radioactive materials during World War II collapsed last week, raising concerns about whether the adjacent water supply is safe to drink. officials
Dylan O'DailyMark Ruffalo 'Dark Waters' Is a Real-Life Horror Story, And You're Part of It VICE - Alex ZaragozaHorror movies condition us be cautious of our surroundings—to flinch at the sound of a creaking floorboard or a sudden chill in the air. But the biggest scares in life are the ones that come from things
Dylan O'DailyMichigan Michigan illuminates the night sky in astronaut photo taken from space mlive.com Those were the words of Michigan astronaut Christina Koch, who shared a fantastically beautiful image of Michigan from the International Space …
Dylan O'DailyScience The Accidental Experiment That Changed Men’s Lives The Atlantic - Tim JohnsonDalton ConleyChristopher T. DawesThe Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects. Festooned with mustard-yellow drapes and a dangling American flag,
Dylan O'DailyMilitary The U.S. Army’s Worst Tradition: Never Ready for the Next War The Daily Beast - James A. Warren Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Army has been consistently ranked as the most capable land force on the globe by defense analysts of all …
Dylan O'DailyOpinion Native Americans will take centre stage in the Mayflower celebrations The Guardian - Richard BrooksIn 1620 the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth for the New World with 102 pilgrims. Four centuries on, a staggering 30 million Americans can trace their ancestry to them. During 2020, Mayflower 400 will be
Dylan O'DailyOpinion Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor The New York TimesLast week, in defense of her father, Ivanka Trump tweeted out a quotation she wrongly attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville: “A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the
Dylan O'DailyDemographics Where Most Native Americans Live U.S. News & World Report - Andrew Soergel The number of people in the U.S. identifying as American Indian has climbed in recent years, with California, Arizona and Oklahoma accounting for the …
Dylan O'DailyHistory Pearl Harbor: 5 frontline stories from the people who were there historyextra.com - Elinor Evans On 7 December 1941, a fleet of Japanese aircraft unleashed a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii. What …
Dylan O'DailyWorld News Father grabbed his 5 children and fled after US 'betrayed' his town CNN - By Clarissa Ward, Salma AbdelazizAl Hasakah, Syria (CNN) — It was just a few weeks ago, on a sunny day in early October, when Ibrahim Hassan stood snapping photos of his children smiling with American soldiers in his hometown of Ras The
Dylan O'DailyCulture What the Hell Has Hollywood Got Against Nikola Tesla? The Daily Beast - Richard Munson Nikola Tesla deserves better from Hollywood. The Current War, recently released by director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, gives the victor of that battle for …
Dylan O'DailyAmerican History The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue smithsonianmag.com - Claire Bugos In Thanksgiving pageants held at schools across the United States, children don headdresses colored with craft-store feathers and share tables with …
Dylan O'DailyNative Americans For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning CNN - By Pamela Kirkland, CNN(CNN) — As residents of Plymouth, Massachusetts, prepared for a dinner in 1970 to mark the Mayflower landing, a leader of the tribe that had feasted with the Pilgrims drafted a speech to deliver at the
Dylan O'DailyMilitary History America's Battleship USS New Jersey Sailed To Vietnam And Fired 5,688 16-Inch Shells nationalinterest.org - Kyle Mizokami That's one way to say hello.Key point: New Jersey was inactivated in 1969. The old battlewagon would be reactivated just twelve years later as part …
Dylan O'DailyArchaeology Graves Belonging to 145 African-American Adults and Children Discovered on Fla. High School Campus People - By Gabrielle ChungRoughly 145 unmarked graves have been discovered buried on the grounds of a Florida high school. Making the shocking find even more upsetting, it is believed the graves are part of a pauper’s burial ground
Dylan O'DailyHistory Why Pilgrims Arriving in America Resisted Bathing history.com - By Becky Little When the Mayflower Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth in the early 17th century, they didn’t smell terrific, according to Native American accounts. Unlike …
Dylan O'DailyNews Two U.S. service members killed in helicopter crash during Afghanistan combat The Washington Post - Sayed SalahuddinA lawmaker from Logar province said the crash occurred near an American outpost in the province. The helicopter “hit a mountainous area, and we understand that it occurred five kilometers away from a base,”
Dylan O'DailyHistory Opinion: Midway’s treatment of the Japanese enemy highlights the power and limits of empathy historyextra.com - Elinor Evans Representations of the Japanese in WW2 films have often been based on wartime caricatures of them as barbaric and subhuman – mirroring the shocking …
Dylan O'DailyUnited States Native American shield returned to New Mexico from France Associated Press - By MARY HUDETZ, Associated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A ceremonial Native American shield has been welcomed back to New Mexico by tribal leaders, in the culmination of a yearslong international campaign to reclaim the sacred object
Dylan O'DailyMilitary History Watch When America Invaded Russia | Fox Nation Fox NewsIn 1918, roughly 5,000 American soldiers were sent to fight the Soviet Union’s Red Army in Archangel, Russia. And there they remained—engaged in brutal combat with Bolshevik revolutionaries in sixty below