OFF MENUKimmel Humiliates Trump With Brutal Obama AnalogyThe forced MAGA outrage over Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke continues. Ewan Palmer
OpinionOPERATION DC STORMTrump Purge on Enemies Triggers Memories of Saddam HusseinThe president’s campaign of retribution has disturbing echoes of the Iraqi strongman.David Gardner
DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICEFormer FBI Official Compares Trump to Saddam Hussein The official accused Trump of using “intimidation and coercion.”Amethyst Martinez
SURREAL LIFESaddam Hussein’s Granddaughter Lives It Up at Cartier PartyHareer Hussein Kamel has posted laudatory messages about her late grandfather on Instagram, despite his history of war crimes. Noah Kirsch
COME AGAIN?Fox Host Compares Dem Turnout to ‘Saddam Hussein Numbers’Host Bill Hemmer compared the big Democratic turnout in the midterm elections to that of the former Iraqi dictator.Audrey McNamara
PAWNS IN THE GAMEDid a Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?When grad students were asked to collect floor plans for buildings in Baghdad in the fall of 1990, were they helping to preserve Iraqi culture—or to find targets for smart bombs?Geoff Manaugh
opinionLONG MEMORIESIran Can’t Stop Making Trouble in MideastThe scars of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war have never been forgotten or forgiven by Iran’s hardliners. Their righteous ‘resistance’ has become their raison d’être.Shoueb Rifai
Held Without ChargeTrump Uses War Vs. Saddam to Justify Jailing American TodayMore details are emerging about the unnamed American ISIS ‘fighter’ who surrendered to U.S. allies, the thumb drive he had with him—and the law being used to keep him locked up.Spencer Ackerman
ElectionThe Candidate Who’s Dined With Mick Jagger & Saddam’s SonsAs a journalist, Leslie Cockburn dined with Saddam Hussein’s sons and reported from war zones. Mick Jagger came to dinner. Now she’s running as a Democratic candidate in Virginia.Lloyd Grove
WAR CRIMESAssad Hanged Thousands in DungeonsShocking new Amnesty report shows yet again the Syrian regime’s cruelty.Alex Rowell
EROTICBlackwater Founder Loves Donald TrumpDonald Trump may brag about how strong his dubious opposition to the Iraq War was, but one of its most famous villains loves him.Betsy Swan