Recent articles
February 23, 2026
That 1930s Feeling
How dark fringes reached the center of the Republican Party
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February 9, 2026
Pete Hegseth’s Attack on Harvard
The anger at the Ivy League is about status envy, not war-fighting.
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February 3, 2026
Countdown to an Arms Race
The last significant nuclear-arms-control treaty is about to expire, and Trump isn’t putting anything in its place.
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January 25, 2026
Pete Hegseth Should Sit This One Out
By inserting himself into the situation in Minnesota, the secretary of defense is only making things worse.
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January 19, 2026
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
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January 14, 2026
Trump’s Most Dangerous Obsession
His irrational fixation with Greenland could lead to global conflict.
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January 3, 2026
Maybe Russia and China Should Sit This One Out
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are just shocked—shocked!—by the American attack on Venezuela.
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January 2, 2026
Trump’s ‘Operation Iranian Freedom’
How many foreign wars does the “America First” president intend to start?
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December 24, 2025
An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist
A roundup that evokes a new nostalgia
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December 23, 2025
Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
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December 18, 2025
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
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December 4, 2025
Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
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December 1, 2025
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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