Colin Powell
The shots are safe and effective. But one high-profile case immediately set off a far-right feeding frenzy.
Ronald Reagan himself seemed to hope so, and the last quarter century could have been very different if Powell had run in 1996.
Powell’s family announced the news via a statement on Facebook, saying that he passed away from COVID complications on Monday morning.
He was the first Black American at the pinnacle of U.S. military and national-security power. And he was the one who lost the most—for his selling of the Iraq War to the UN.
“I really hope the DNC’s strategy this week of wooing undecided voters with the star power of John Kasich and Meg Whitman really pays off,” said the “Last Week Tonight” host.
Biden said his presidency would serve as a transition to the future of the Democratic Party. On his convention’s second night, it was all about the past.
The speculation intensifies by the day: Will the generals with whom our bellicose president has surrounded himself ever just say no? There is a precedent.