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  • Democracy & Government
    The Die is Cast. Can the Republic Be Saved?
    June 4, 2020
    | Jim Sleeper

    Demagogue that he is and that he’s toyed with becoming since well before he ran for president, Donald Trump used his June 2 rant against looting and thuggery after George Floyd’s murder to bang the drum for a civil war that he’s been toying with. But how pure was the republic before he stepped into the spotlight?

  • War & Peace
    Trump's Vietnam Looks Nothing Like the Documentary Airing on PBS
    September 27, 2017
    | Jim Sleeper
    Does Trump understand the true meaning of patriotism more than those who take a knee?
  • War & Peace
    The Military is America’s 51st and Most Powerful State
    March 24, 2016
    | William J. Astore
    With the end of the draft came the end of America's citizen-soldier tradition. The new, all-volunteer military is far more powerful, far less accountable and far more dangerous.
  • War & Peace
    A Bill Moyers Essay: Bring Back the Draft
    October 30, 2009 | Bill Moyers Journal
    Bill Moyers discusses how bringing back the military draft would force the leaders in Washington to fight the war in Afghanistan properly or end it outright.


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