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Rogue Nation America

We are a rogue nation.Not just an imperialist nation, but a rogue one, imposing our will outside international norms and despite the constitutional and legal safeguards we’ve long believed …

War Games

The “fog of war.” That is how Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, describes his Sept. 2 war crime in the Caribbean. It was just the “fog of war.” As reported by …

Hank Kalet

Courts Step Up. Now It’s Our Turn.

Hank Kalet

Cherry-Picking for Propaganda and Politics

Trump 2.0: The Vulnerable Are In the Crosshairs

Immigration groups have been warning us for months. Things were going to be different during a second Trump administration. They painted a picture of a nation at war, one in which the military …

America First Imperialism

I want to think it’s a joke. An ad-lib. But it wasn’t the first time he said it. Greenland. The Panama Canal. Canada. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Annexation of foreign lands. Military …

Mourn First, Then Organize

The novelist Elmore Leonard once commanded writers not to start with the weather. It is cliche, obvious. But the sun is out this morning. It is a dark day but the sun is bright and I can only …

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