Senate Republicans, abetted by the two Democrats from Arizona, on Wednesday killed two resolutions which would have blocked President Donald Trump’s proposed $23 billion weapons sale to the United Arab Emirates.

Since the 1970s, U.S. real wages have largely stagnated. After a century of real wages rising every decade, that stagnation changed the lives of the U.S. working class in traumatic ways. Likewise, since the 1970s, labor productivity grew steadily, aided sequentially by computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. The combination of …

At a time when Syria is experiencing a state of relative calm in terms of military operations, which are confined to back-and-forth operations in the Syrian desert, and exchange of fire in the “de-escalation zone”, the simmering Russian-Iranian conflict is once again coming to the fore.