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Weapons of the Week: Like Joe McCarthy, I enjoy a good dossier.
Diplomatic relations, domestic repression. Plus: the truth about Joseph Welch, a bit of family history, and more.
Mar 12
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Tim Barker
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Weapons of the Week: Like Joe McCarthy, I enjoy a good dossier.
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Until the depression comes, which it always does
President Trump's meditations on an emergency
Mar 5
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Tim Barker
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Weapons of the Week: Prattle and Hum
The sound of US global primacy: old men yelling. Plus: Biden vs Zelensky,GOP factions, Roger Wicker's 5% Solution, tariff conflict, and more!
Mar 4
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Tim Barker
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Weapons of the Week: Prattle and Hum
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January 2025
Weapons of the Week: "Let's See What Happens"
Civilian honors; Nippon Steel; Jake rattles the nukes; Trump's awful appointments.
Jan 5
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Tim Barker
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Weapons of the Week: "Let's See What Happens"
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Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public…
Jan 1
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Tim Barker
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Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
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December 2024
Beverly Gage's Bizarre Apologia for J. Edgar Hoover
What’s going on here, and are we ever going to talk about it?
Dec 27, 2024
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Tim Barker
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Beverly Gage's Bizarre Apologia for J. Edgar Hoover
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Weapons of the Week #13: When Walter Reuther (Almost) Met Paul Nitze
A trip into the Cold War archives, to avoid the unbearable present.
Dec 27, 2024
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Tim Barker
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Weapons of the Week #13: When Walter Reuther (Almost) Met Paul Nitze
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November 2024
Us Labor and the Gaza War (3): What Is To Be Done?
We should approach the military-industrial complex as a target of specific investigations and as a window into the broader structure of American…
Nov 30, 2024
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Tim Barker
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Us Labor and the Gaza War (3): What Is To Be Done?
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US Labor and the Gaza War (2): Historical Perspective
Are we doomed to repetition? It’s something I worry about.
Nov 15, 2024
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Tim Barker
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US Labor and the Gaza War (2): Historical Perspective
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US Labor and the Gaza War (1)
There is an opening not because of our own strength but because the elite is disorganized, morally bankrupt, and without vision.
Nov 15, 2024
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Tim Barker
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October 2024
The Geometry of Mass Graves
If your dad owned his own private Rothko chapel, would you commit a genocide?
Oct 8, 2024
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Tim Barker
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Weapons of the Week #12: Nihilistic Regional Murder Spree
The cult of the offensive meets the October Surprise. Plus: Why is Amos Hochstein? How is Mira Resnick? Where is Hady Amr? Who is Maher Bitar? And links…
Oct 1, 2024
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