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Late-night comedian Seth Meyers recently offered these comments laughingly on “our” president and the ominous return of the Department of Defense to its old name (given up just after World War
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Once upon a time about 150 years ago, I wrote a book called The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation on the long, slow collapse of the American sense of triumphalism
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Defense? Who needs “defense” when “war” is so much easier to spell? As few could have missed by now, the Trump administration has flipped the name of the Department of Defense back
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I live in New York City and, yes, you can’t leave your apartment for a walk on its streets (and I walk them miles a day) and not pass homeless, sometimes visibly disturbed (or unnerved) people standing, sitting, or lying on the sidewalks, sometimes even with signs suggesting their desperation and asking for any small sum of money that those passing them might care to give
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Hey, wouldn’t you know it? The Bible, it turns out, is a deal — a big deal, as it happens! Before I get into the details, let me just put down this distinctly biblical figure: $1,306,035. And get this! Donald Trump
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A Potentially World-Ending President (Though Who Even Notices?) ByImagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States. I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use the word advisedly) explosive for days (weeks, months?) on end, assuming of course that any media was left to cover it. And yet, here’s the strange thing:
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Honestly, can you believe it? Only a couple of weeks after Israeli forces targeted and killed four Al Jazeera journalists in a tent outside al-Shifa Hospital
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Whether you’re thinking about war, climate change, or Donald Trump, we distinctly seem to be in a world going to hell in a proverbial handbasket — or do I mean an e-basket or, for that matter, could it be a Trump and Putin basket? In such a world, if you want to do anything to try to reset the human agenda, or at least protest where it’s taking us (as I know all too well
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The one thing you can say about Donald Trump in his second term in office is that, whatever he may be doing at home, he’s not fighting any wars abroad, right? Well, actually, wrong! Yes, American ground troops are no longer actively fighting wars around the world, but when it comes to air power, think again. And I don’t just have in mind his brief but devastating recent
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Yes, the National Guard is already in the streets of Washington, D.C., and count on one thing: that’s surely only the beginning. Donald Trump declared a “public safety emergency” there (think martial law) while announcing “a