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Trump at war

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Katie Rogers has an entertainingly wry piece [gift link] about Trump and Little Marco attending an UFC match while his Team of Cronies and Nepo Babies were thoroughly botching negotiations with Iran: On Saturday evening, as Vice President JD Vance took a podium in Pakistan and...
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Suicide Out of a Fear of Death

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Well this makes sense: President Trump said that the U.S. Navy would begin blockading “any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz,” after peace talks with Iran in Islamabad collapsed this weekend. “I have also instructed our Navy to seek and...
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What to Do With NEPA?

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The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was one of the truly groundbreaking laws in American history, creating the entire idea of citizen review of development projects for environmental impact. Development interests have always hated it for creating a system where they would have to be...
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Election of the Weekend IV: Hungary

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Our story begins almost 20 years ago, in 2006, when two ambitious 25 year old Hungarian baby lawyers got married. The bride, Judit Varga, had already joined Fidesz, the main opposition party at the time. Fidesz had emerged from 1980's student movement as a secular, liberal-to-libertarianish...

Music Notes

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After sort of recovering from the exhaustion that Big Ears creates, I dragged myself to Boston to see the great rock band Wednesday, who I think is probably the most.

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