Obama's ‘propaganda’ pushed people to ‘hate the police,’ Giuliani says  —  President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two New York City police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car …

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses  —  Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …

New York Officers' Killer, Adrift and Ill, Had a Plan  —  Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who had drifted between friends and family members for most of his short life, alienating most of them and failing at almost anything that he tried, decided to come home on Saturday.

North Korea's Internet link is flaky today  —  If you've been trying to connect to North Korean Internet sites in the last 24 hours, you might have been unsuccessful.  —  Connectivity between North Korea and the rest of the world has been spotty for much of the time, according to Dyn Research.

How David Gregory Lost His Job  —  Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of “Meet the Press.”  Here's an inside look at his fall from the top—and what it says about the state of TV news.  —  David Gregory was driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when he got the call …

AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …

Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment  —  Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head.  —  Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.

Pakistan to execute 500 terror convicts in coming weeks: officials  —  Masroor Gilani  —  Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.

Nixon To China a Bad Move in Rubio's Eyes?  —  Part of what I tuned out over the weekend was Sen. Marco Rubio's domination of the Sunday Shows.  The near-omniscient Brother Benen covered them for us: … I know Rubio is trying very hard to re-establish his credibility with the hard-core …

Putin, Neocons and the Great Illusion  —  More than a century has passed since Norman Angell, a British journalist and politician, published “The Great Illusion,” a treatise arguing that the age of conquest was or at least should be over.  He didn't predict an end to warfare …

US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back  —  When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism.

Man dressed as elf charged with DWI  —  RIVERDALE - A man dressed as one of Santa's little helpers found himself in trouble Friday morning when Riverdale police allegedly discovered him drunkenly passed out in a car.  —  Around 3:30 a.m., Sgt. Pat Harden was dispatched to the parking lot …