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- POLL: Trump’s Iran War Is Now as Unpopular as Vietnam and Iraq
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters prior to departing the White House in Washington, D.C., USA, on February 27, 2026. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via AP) Support for President Donald Trump’s war with Iran has dipped to the same levels as unpopular wars like Vietnam and Iraq, according to a new poll. A survey released by ABC-The Washington Post-Ipsos shows support for the ongoing conflict in Iran is continuing to fall, with six in 10 Americans calling the military action a mistake and just 2 in 10 calling the campaign a success. “President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s,” The Washington Post reported on Friday. According to the survey, 61% call the Iran war a mistake, but Trump continues to have support is among Republicans. While 61% overall called the military action a mistake, that number changes to 91% among Democrats and only 19% among Republicans. More than 70% of respondents who identified as independent or “other” also called the action a mistake. Nearly 80% of Republicans said striking Iran was the right decision. That number dropped to 36% among respondents overall. Just 8% of Democrats feel it was the right decision and only 24% of independents support it. Overall, 19% called the military campaign a success, 39% said it was unsuccessful, and 41% said it’s too early to tell. Meanwhile, 46% of Republicans believe it was a success and just 7% believe it was unsuccessful. Among Democrats, 67% say it was unsuccessful, and 43% of independents agree. The Post noted that the Iran war has already reached a level of unpopularity that took other wars years to reach. They reported: The historical comparison to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam — conflicts that polarized Americans in the moment and ultimately came to be seen as failures — is especially notable. It took years for the Iraq War, which was launched in March 2003, to reach the level of disapproval that Trump’s war has in just two months. Fifty-nine percent of Americans in mid-2006 said the war in Iraq was a mistake, while similar numbers felt the same about the war in Vietnam in the early 1970s, according to Gallup polls. The survey also showed Americans are concerned about financial constraints brought on by the war,… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - The Real Greek restaurant chain on brink of collapse
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Screenshot Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told a crowd at Washington, D.C.’s National Press Club about the culture of “corporate meddling and editorial fear” that’s arisen since David Ellison and Bari Weiss took over CBS News. Ellison took control of the network after his company, Skydance Media, acquired Paramount Global last August. One of his first moves was to purchase The Free Press digital outlet from Weiss and install her as editor-in-chief at CBS News. Weiss had previously worked as an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal, and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times before founding The Free Press. At the Thursday event, Alfonsi received the Ridenhour prize for courage, and spoke about her 60 Minutes piece on El Salvador’s notorious CECOT Prison that Alfonsi fought for when Weiss pulled at the last minute. “Thank you for this award. I didn’t know that the theme was hope. My hope recently has been that I still have a job,” she said. “And every morning I wake up to another headline that says I’ve been fired.” Alfonsi alleged at the time that Weiss had “spiked” the story for political purposes because it made the Trump administration look bad, but Weiss argued that the segment wasn’t complete because it didn’t include the Trump administration’s perspective. The segment eventually aired about a month later, largely in its original form. “I will not linger on the internal mechanics of the dust-up at CBS that led to our CECOT story being pulled, but we have to be honest about what it represents,” Alfonsi told the audience. “It wasn’t an isolated editorial argument. In my view, it was the result of a more aggressive contagion: the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear. It’s hard to watch.” Decision-making in the news division has gone from, “‘Is the story true?’ to, ‘is it good for business?’” Alfonsi said. Alfonsi shared that standing up to her bosses over the CECOT episode was so upsetting that her producers “offered to hold [her] hair when [she] was so nervous she was puking about what [she] had done.” Alfonsi said she believed her future at the network was in jeopardy, and she was unsure if she’ll return for the show’s 59th season.The post 60 Minutes’ Sharyn Alfonsi Speaks for the First Time on ‘Corporate Meddling’ in Network News… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Oil Companies’ Huge Profits Revive Calls for Temporary Windfall Taxes
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Professor Jonathan Zimmerman of the University of Pennsylvania has a worthwhile essay on the state of higher education in Liberties (a relatively new journal that is routinely filled with worthwhile material). His essay, "The President and the Universities" begins: In March of last year, about six weeks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, I traveled to Washington for a meeting of American education scholars. The opening panel focused — appropriately enough — on Trump's threats to university funding, free speech on campus, and more. Then it was time for questions, and I raised my hand. I said that I agreed with all the critiques of Trump, but I also wondered what those of us who work in higher education might have done — or not done — to bring about this awful moment. Could we use it to look in the mirror, I asked, and not just to circle the wagons? Dead silence. Then another member of the audience spoke up. "I just wanted to say that I was deeply offended by Professor Zimmerman's use of the term 'circle the wagons,' which connotes a hateful history of Native American displacement and genocide," she said. More awkward silence. Finally the moderator of the panel interjected herself. "Thank you for reminding us that we need to be careful in the language that we use to describe others," she said. So the panel began with a diatribe about Donald Trump's assault on free speech and it concluded with a warning to watch our words. That signifies a loss of faith in universities themselves. For the past seventy-five years, we have been telling a story about how we enhance democratic dialogue and understanding. Yet we don't really believe it. If we did, the moderator would have asked the objecting scholar to say more about why she bridled at my phraseology. Then the moderator would have asked me to reply, and after that she would have solicited reactions from the audience. And eventually we might have gotten around to the substance of my question, which concerned the delicate matter of what degree of introspection, what sort of critical self-examination, might be required of professors and teachers amid the current crisis. None of that happened, of course. The moderator drew the panel to a moralistic and satisfyingly evasive close, and we all went out to lunch. "Out to lunch" is where much of higher education… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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