The JFK Assassination Files Didn’t Have a Smoking Gun, But a Very Weird Congressional Hearing Tried to Create One

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On Tuesday, MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna presided over a colorful hearing devoted to one specific goal: speedrunning a revival of 61 years of conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In that goal, Luna, the chairwoman of the brand-new Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, and her witnesses—a bouquet […]
Anna Merlan

Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake

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Chris Milligan arrived in Myanmar in 2012 with a mandate: Help repair diplomatic relations with the southeast Asian country by reopening its United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission.  By that point, Milligan had worked for the USAID for more than two decades—a tenure that included working on reconstruction in Baghdad following the Iraq […]
Julianne McShane