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In Book Fight, Lawyers Clash on Whether to Fault Bolton or White House

InterNewsCast25th September 2020

by InterNewsCast25th September 202007

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for John R. Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, seized on a career official’s accusations that the White House improperly politicized...

The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About

InterNewsCast25th September 2020

by InterNewsCast25th September 202009

OUR BODIES, THEIR BATTLEFIELDS War Through the Lives of WomenBy Christina Lamb In one of the more haunting stories in Christina Lamb’s urgent book, a...

How Can We Bear This Much Loss?

InterNewsCast23rd September 2020

by InterNewsCast23rd September 202007

If grief could be calculated strictly in the number of lives lost — to war, disease, natural disaster — then this time surely ranks as...

White House Accused of Intervening to Keep Bolton’s Book From Becoming Public

InterNewsCast23rd September 2020

by InterNewsCast23rd September 2020014

WASHINGTON — White House aides improperly intervened to falsely assert that a manuscript by the former national security adviser John R. Bolton contained classified information...

Life in an America Where Some Are Only ‘Conditional Citizens’

InterNewsCast23rd September 2020

by InterNewsCast23rd September 2020013

CONDITIONAL CITIZENS On Belonging in AmericaBy Laila Lalami Laila Lalami begins “Conditional Citizens” with the promise of U.S. citizenship: On a steamy day in 2000,...

Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction

InterNewsCast22nd September 2020

by InterNewsCast22nd September 202008

Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, “Homeland Elegies,” invites immediate questions about that word, “novel.” The book...

How a Million Refugees Became Postwar Pawns of the Allies

InterNewsCast22nd September 2020

by InterNewsCast22nd September 202007

THE LAST MILLIONEurope’s Displaced Persons From World War to Cold WarBy David Nasaw The tidy title of David Nasaw’s “The Last Million” belies the mind-boggling...

A Prosecutor’s Backstage Tour of the Mueller Investigation

InterNewsCast22nd September 2020

by InterNewsCast22nd September 2020014

There’s something refreshing about an author who harbors no illusions about his own book — especially when that book is about the current occupant of...

Mueller’s Team Could Have Done More to Investigate Trump-Russia Links, Insider Says

InterNewsCast21st September 2020

by InterNewsCast21st September 202008

WASHINGTON — The team led by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, failed to do everything it could to determine what happened in the...

Matthew Yglesias Thinks There Should Be ‘One Billion Americans’

InterNewsCast21st September 2020

by InterNewsCast21st September 202009

ONE BILLION AMERICANS The Case for Thinking BiggerBy Matthew Yglesias There will never be one billion Americans. Matthew Yglesias, the author of “One Billion Americans:...