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YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Lawrence: Trump’s Treasury Secretary said ‘we don’t know when’ Trump’s war will end

MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell examines how Donald Trump’s “central casting” approach to choosing Cabinet members has produced a Treasury Secretary who says, “we don’t know when” Trump’s Iran war will end, echoing the Johnson administration’s false promises of a “light at the end of the tunnel” in Vietnam.

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘No strategy from Day One’: Armed Services Dem slams Trump’s Iran war

Rep. Jason Crow, an Army veteran who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s lack of a strategy for ending his war in Iran and what Rep. Crow calls the “incompetence” of the Trump administration for putting service members, like the 5,000 aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, at risk.

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - WATCH: Transportation Secy. takes family on CORPORATE-SPONSORED road trip

Road trip, anyone? Katy Tur reacts to the release of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's "Great American Road Trip" series, where he and his family crisscross the U.S. The trip was paid for by a nonprofit organization whose sponsors include several travel companies the department is in charge of regulating. The Department of Transportation told MS NOW that ethics officials cleared the project.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ted Galen Carpenter) - Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription?

Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. The post Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription? appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs Gender Equality: A Trojan Horse for Universal Military Conscription? Some European nations are mulling mandatory service for women. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images There are mounting indications that NATO countries are gearing up for a military showdown with Russia. The latest one goes beyond the usual confrontational, Russophobic rhetoric coming from the European Union’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, or NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. It even goes beyond the deepening support of NATO members for increased military spending and…Open

NYTIMES (K. R. Callaway) - This Skeleton is the First Confirmed Death by Trebuchet

Researchers believe a young man buried inside a Scottish castle was a victim of the long-feared siege weapon, more powerful than a typical catapult.

NYTIMES (Andrew Higgins) - Orban’s Office, Thrown Open, Is Not the Den Hungarians Expected

The new government of Peter Magyar hoped to use the suite overlooking the Danube as evidence of an autocrat’s indulgence. The trappings fell short.

HUFFPOST - ‘Survival Mode’: Indiana Residents Endure A Ninth Day Without Power

Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines.