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Civil Rights and Historical Honesty
A historian's reaction to a recent executive order
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
Signalgate: violating national security
in order to violate rights
2+2=5
"America destroys one of its own symbols," by Stanislav Aseyev
The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe
And What to Do. A guest essay by Laurie Winer
Armored Ambulances for Ukrainian Medics
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Unfreedom at the Washington Post
How an editorial line fosters authoritarianism
The DOGE Helpline
Comms from Armageddon
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
What Democracy Brings
And What the Cuts to the National Endowment for Democracy Take Away
Is it a peace process? (short video)
Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video
The Logic of Negotiation (video)
How to get from war to peace
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
Positive freedom for the Post
An actual submission, this time
A Washington Post submission
Satire today, straight-faced critique tomorrow, I promise