Recent articles
June 18, 2026
America’s Humiliating Defeat
Iran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.
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May 22, 2026
The Ahmadinejad Option
The idea that Israel and the United States might back Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a coup has drawn guffaws from several different groups.
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April 26, 2026
The Most Frightening Shooters Are the Smart Ones
A manifesto-like email allegedly sent by the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooter suggests a murderous obsession with Trump’s politics.
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April 24, 2026
The Fake Radicals Stealing Lemons
A New York Times podcast hosted Hasan Piker and a New Yorker staff writer for a discussion of lawbreaking, which they both endorsed as resistance to tyranny.
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