by Peter Van Buren | Mar 31, 2017 | News
Things about America we’ve learned since November.Our nation, the republic, democracy, our very system of government is more fragile than at any other time in American history. So fragile that everything has, or is in near-immediate danger of, collapsing, after...
by Peter Van Buren | Jan 1, 2017 | News
This is a version of last year’s January 1 article, updated to reflect the new fears of the World’s Most Frightened Nation.I survived. America, and the world, and you, survived. We awoke the first day of 2017 to find that once again, using the...
by Peter Van Buren | Sep 2, 2016 | News
Checking out the news these days, it might seem pretty clear why the U.S. is at war in Syria: destroy ISIS. That is almost certainly the way the two main presidential candidates will see it during their upcoming first debate, in a rare point of agreement.The funny...
by John W. Whitehead | May 30, 2016 | News
“The horror… the horror…” – Apocalypse Now (1979)“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience’s head every...
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 18, 2016 | News
The US Army recently announced that they are accepting contract bids for the production of microdrones to be carried along by deployed soldiers in their kits. Needless to say, the idea was painted as undeniably good: to help protect “our troops”. Characterized in such...
