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An Israeli official said that troops are blowing up some of their own equipment and infrastructure as they pull out.

At moments when the Mideast is blowing up, American presidents always begin to ape the language, preoccupations and granular knowledge of the regional experts, some of whom follow from White House to White House.

Soon after starting the Free Press, Weiss wrote that after blowing up her career at the New York Times, “I knew I was done with the legacy media—and it was certainly done with me.”

"The question is when -- not if -- it blows up. And timing is incredibly hard."

"We mask all our lives through high school, through education, through university, and then boom, it kind of blows up, we can't mask anymore, we're in severe burnout and we struggle mentally."