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Ultimately, more than 120 projects were canceled, and construction ground to a halt. “The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale,” Forbes magazine commented in 1985, a year before Chernobyl. “Only the blind, or the biased, can now think that ...
Across the nation, reading and math scores sank, while teenage depression soared. Pandemic-era borrowing exploded government debt, inflation reached levels unseen since the Eighties, and major banks failed. A recession could land in good time for the 2024 election.
Adjust. A few hours before the inauguration ceremony, the prospective president receives an elaborate and highly classified briefing on the means and procedures for blowing up the world with a nuclear attack, a rite of passage that a former official described as “a sobering moment.”
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War.
Who drives the war machines, and why. Click to read Spoils of War, by Andrew Cockburn, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine and author of The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine. July 2021. Iraq was Donald Rumsfeld’s war. It will...
Mar 1, 2022 · As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, veteran journalist Andrew Cockburn and Yale historian Timothy Snyder discuss the history of the region and what role NATO’s expansion played in the...
