Timeline: Trump, Jan 6 Afternoon
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” -Donald Trump, when told rioters were breaking into Capitol
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Make Contempt for Democracy Uncool Again
If there is one thing that can spark a feeling of patriotism among partisans who disagree about everything else, it is our shared belief in the USA’s founding ideals of rationality, freedom of thought, and the rights of humanity.
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On the Brink of National Suicide?
A big chunk of the electorate is probably incurably wedded to the Make America Great Leader, but an even bigger chunk is not. A plausible disaster is not the same as an inevitable one. If we love our country we are not allowed to give up on it. The magnitude of the danger does not absolve us of the responsibility to do what we can to avert it.
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Four Slow News Years
I personally feel happy about the pieces I’ve written, in which I try to bring out background information for the news… but its possible that my posts look to me like they are giving especially good answers because I am the one asking the questions…
Read MoreAnother Judgement Against Lies of Team Trump
To the public he swears that his election conspiracy accusations are true, then he goes in front of a judge and says the opposite.
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Fighting Terror With Terror
If Israel can kill the military leader of Hamas, how many Palestinian children is it allowed to kill in the process?
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Israel and Palestine: The Dialectic of Death
As far as I can tell, the vast majority of both Palestinians and Israelis won’t blame their own people for the conflict. Palestinians will complain bitterly of being locked into Gaza, as if that had nothing to do with Gaza’s Hamas leaders continuing to work towards Israel’s destruction. Israelis will complain bitterly of Palestinian attacks, ignoring the role of Israeli bombings, shootings, and settlement expansion in undercutting efforts by any Palestinians who want to compromise.
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Infographic: Israel/Palestine Since the Peace Treaty
I believe that to understand the massacres of 2023, we need to know how we got from Oslo to here. To that end I’ve put together a timeline showing major events in the conflict from 1993 to 2023.
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Israel/Palestine: The Attack
People on both sides of the conflict have important blind spots – truths about the situation that they can not see and therefore can not acknowledge as true.
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Greatest Rock Cover of All Time?
In four minutes of music, their Summertime sums up the nature of human existence, achingly beautiful, beautifully painful, and eternally hopeful.
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