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  • Democracy & Government
    The Pentagon, First, Last, and Always
    March 2, 2021
    | Mandy Smithberger

    Focusing on the wrong threats, including a new Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

  • Letters From an American
    The Morning After
    January 8, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The tide has turned against Trump and his congressional supporters, and they are scrambling.

  • Democracy & Government
    The Pentagon 10 Speak Out – Should Anyone Care?
    January 6, 2021
    | Andrew Bacevich

    That each and every one of the Pentagon 10 is by his own lights a patriot, not to mention a beneficiary of white male privilege, is undoubtedly the case.  That each did his level best is also no doubt the case.  Yet all accepted without question an assumption that has long formed foundation of U.S. national security policy:   the conviction that the possession and use of matchless military might offers the best way to ...

  • Letters From an American
    Deliberate Mayhem
    December 19, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The White House keeps up lame duck destruction.
  • Letters From an American
    Thoughts on the Silence of Republican Lawmakers
    December 6, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    There is no excuse for the silence of Republican lawmakers as their president attacks our democracy. But there might be a precedent.

  • Letters From an American
    Heather Cox Richardson: Trump's Personal Pentagon
    December 5, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    While coronavirus continues to burn across the country, Trump is focusing instead on continuing to contest the election results and on the Pentagon.

  • Letters From an American
    Chaos from Trump. Calm from Biden
    November 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today President-Elect Joe Biden named his chief of staff. He has picked Ronald A. Klain, 59, a veteran Democratic operative with degrees from Georgetown and Harvard Law School, who has worked in and around Washington, D.C., since 1987, when he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Klain was Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president.

  • War & Peace
    Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy By Michael T. Klare
    October 20, 2020
    | Michael T. Klare
    The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy
  • Letters From an American
    Trump's Campaign Ramps Up
    June 11, 2020

    It seems that the lines of Trump’s election campaign are solidifying — poll rage, praising the Confederacy and COVID-19 denial.

  • Letters From an American
    The Pentagon Says No
    June 3, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Military leaders past and present and all four former U.S. presidents condemn Trump's "troops on the ground."


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