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Where the Horses Went
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Where the Horses Went
An optimistic case for robotics and what that means for the rest of us
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December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A Week After Bondi Beach Massacare: The Dark Deal
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A Week After Bondi Beach Massacare: The Dark Deal
It Starts with a Harassed Bakery and Ends with Murders on the Beach; How Antisemitism Was Enabled from Above
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December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Sunday Pages: "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States"
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Sunday Pages: "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States"
A valediction by George Washington
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December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A Few Good Memories
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A Few Good Memories
Rob Reiner told me he knew Trump was trouble
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December 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Recipe for Hate
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Recipe for Hate
We need a better framework for understanding Antisemitism
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December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Donald Trump, Security Threat
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Donald Trump, Security Threat
The call is coming from inside the White House
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December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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How Sick Is He?
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How Sick Is He?
The physical and mental health of the president is a state secret
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December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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The Military As A Murder Weapon
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The Military As A Murder Weapon
No congressional vote. No legal defense. Just a strongman's madness and missiles.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Ramble On: War & Peace & Appeasement
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Ramble On: War & Peace & Appeasement
Morning thoughts on Putin, Trump, Kushner, Witkoff, the futility of peace talks with the Kremlin, and Russia's unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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MAGA’s Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse
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MAGA’s Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse
And Trump’s numbers will continue to slide
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December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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They need to make you hate some group
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They need to make you hate some group
As soon as you start judging people as a group, the rightists win.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Pardon Me?
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Pardon Me?
Trump's abuse of the presidential pardon is undermining the rule of law
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December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Hamas and the West’s NGO-ization Trap
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Hamas and the West’s NGO-ization Trap
The Crisis of Humanitarian Governance
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December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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A Response to the “This Is the Story...on Gaza” Ben Rhodes NYT Opinion piece
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A Response to the “This Is the Story...on Gaza” Ben Rhodes NYT Opinion piece
Having more time to think about this only increases how appalling the New York Times opinion piece, “This Is the Story of How the Democrats View It on Gaza,” by Ben Rhodes truly is for Israel, for the...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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A Tale of Two Peters
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A Tale of Two Peters
Hegseth and Beinart are opposites with a common view about ethics and power
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December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Trump to Disaster Victims: Drop Dead
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Trump to Disaster Victims: Drop Dead
Sorry, but we don’t help the little people
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December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime?
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Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime?
Or are they the same thing?
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December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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What no one dares say about AOC
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What no one dares say about AOC
It's the elephant in America’s living room
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November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Hegseth’s Order Was Unlawful Before the Missile Even Left the Rail
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Hegseth’s Order Was Unlawful Before the Missile Even Left the Rail
And Parnas’ Framing Obscures Why
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November 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008
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Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008
Trump’s cronies are undermining financial stability
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Shut Down Your BoomerCon Uncle This Thanksgiving
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Shut Down Your BoomerCon Uncle This Thanksgiving
Gary is ready to talk tariffs. Be ready for Gary.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Sunday Pages: "Proclamation 106—Thanksgiving Day, 1863"
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Sunday Pages: "Proclamation 106—Thanksgiving Day, 1863"
A decree by Abraham Lincoln
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November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The Question Of Decency
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The Question Of Decency
Orwell, Trump, and the dangers of a profoundly indecent man in the presidency.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Cast Him Out: No More MAGAmazement
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Cast Him Out: No More MAGAmazement
I come to break the Orange Enchanter's spell and liberate you from his rough magic, so you can see things as they really are...and join me in demanding his immediate resignation.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Jamelle was cooking.

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If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM