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Count on one thing: Donald Trump wasn’t kidding. I’m thinking of the moment when he insisted that he would be a “dictator” on “day one” of his next term
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It hardly matters what day you check out which news report when it comes to Gaza or now Lebanon. Amid the accounts of chaos and further destruction, there are always the children, even if often hidden away in the odd paragraph somewhere in the piece. Take a typical
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The Empire Is Going Down But What Isn’t? ByHe’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with Kamala Harris that, as he reminded
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It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about heat (staggering records continue to be set across the American West) or storms (Category 5 hurricane Milton just followed Category 4 hurricane Helene over the ever-hotter waters of the Gulf of Mexico and clobbered Florida).
If only, in terms of the weather, everything were indeed parenthetical. Sadly, if that was ever true,
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Yes, it’s hard even to remember (if you aren’t of a certain advanced age), but I grew up in a world where the two superpowers, the United States and Russia, both increasingly armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and so unable to fight each other directly without the possibility of the planet going up in flames, engaged in what came to be known as a Cold War. Meanwhile,
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Consider this strange (or perhaps not strange enough): we’re now on a planet where, in late September, the temperature reached a record-breaking 117
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Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Helene, the most recent hurricane to gain staggering strength by crossing the ever-warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico, proved devastating not just to
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Give Donald Trump credit. He’s a genuine record-setter and no one can deny it. After all, he’s now the oldest candidate ever to run for president of the United States and, were he to win in November
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Honestly, on October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’s horrific assault on Israel, with 1,200 dead, thousands wounded, those
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Can you even imagine a world where the response of President George W. Bush to al-Qaeda’s acts of horror in September 2001 wasn’t the launching of “the Global War on Terror” which, from Afghanistan and Iraq across the Middle East and deep into Africa, became a global set of disastrous conflicts that might, in truth, have been al-Qaeda’s dream? Well, dream on.
And while