‘For the Protection of the Free World’

Trump is sounding more and more like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney: "I think the people want to be with us," Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on board the presidential plane. "I don't really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a...

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Thermonuclear Crack: The Death Wish of the ‘Elites’

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”? Shouldn’t we fight to achieve peace through nuclear “strength” and “deterrence”? Isn’t it smart to “refurbish, rebuild, and modernize” the nuclear...

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James Carden on Scaremongering on Sunday

Minutes before the start of the Bills-Chiefs AFC championship game on Sunday, viewers were subjected to a risible 30 second ad paid for by a shadowy dark money PAC called National Interest [sic] Action. The ad serves as a kind of scare-mongering open letter to...

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Trump’s Malevolent Yemen Policy

As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen: It also directs the US Agency for International...

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Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough

I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat,  Alice...

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