Another 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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A Visit to Arkansas
Why Arkansas? Sometimes it seemed like it was just to be able to tell people we were going on vacation in Arkansas.
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Can You Draw the United States?
I’m going to think of the map the way a physicist might. I’m going to start out with the simplest approximation I can find that captures the main features.
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Belated Announcement
I am happy to announce our purchase of a new all-electric car, the Nissan Leaf.
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United States Annual Budget, Part II
Budgets are stereotyped as dry and uninformative, but they represent a portrait of everything the government is doing. At a time when the debt series show-down has people attacking or defending the budget, it is important to know what the budget actually is.
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