NYTimes.com: An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/politics/secret-service-staffing-retention-hiring.html?smid=em-share

NYTimes.com: An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

An Exodus of Agents Left the Secret Service Unprepared for 2024

Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/politics/secret-service-staffing-retention-hiring.html?smid=em-share

The Christian Radicals Are Coming

A swing-state revival aims to transform “Donald Trump–supporting believers into ‘God-appointed warriors’ ready to do whatever the Almighty might require of them in November and beyond,”

@mccrummens writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/eau-claire-tent-revival/680097/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYd0E5r6nCPNXJ8ZV-i0Etms&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism

“We have no viable path forward as a pluralistic society—none—without confronting the deterioration of the evangelical movement and repairing the relationship between Christians and the broader culture,” writes @TimAlberta:  

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/christian-nationalism-danger/676974/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTxFMLm0Xk4mDEv4dF2jbME&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

********* Israel Tries for a Knockout Blow

“Whether we wish it or not, we are again in the world of war, which plays by rules closer to those of the boxing ring than the seminar room,” writes @EliotACohen:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/09/israel-nasrallah-hezbollah/680073/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYScxNkJCc4EGmsaWMRlMMwA&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

******** Hezbollah Got Caught in Its Own Trap

“Hezbollah is now caught in a trap of its own making. It sought to have a limited border confrontation with Israel to maintain its credibility as a ‘resistance’ organization, but not an all-out war. Israel called its bluff,” @Ibishblog writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/09/hezbollah-got-caught-its-own-trap/680076/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYfLWGGfWpo_E-SzbXGDjv_E&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

******* The ‘Gray Zone’ Comes to Russia

For the first time in many decades, a swath of Russia could become a gray zone, “a functional part of no country, controlled and punished by Russia’s adversary,” @annanemtsova writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/08/gray-zone-comes-to-russia-ukraine-war/679452/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQ7ekP1bPOl0zI0-qOokhSo&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social