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A TALE OF TWO TALIBANS
Malala Yousafzai is the 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head and neck by a Pakistani Taliban gunman. Her “crime”? Campaigning for the right of girls and women to pursue an...
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TWO TALIBANS: THEIRS AND OURS
Malala Yousafzai is the 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head and neck by a Pakistani Taliban gunman. Her “crime”? Campaigning for the right of girls and women to pursue an...
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STANDING UP FOR–AND TO–TERRARABISM: PART ONE (OF TWO)
“Speeches at publishers-and-editors meetings are usually by definition reasonably self-indulgent, a lot of talk about the greatness of the press and the freedom therof.” So wrote David Halberstam in...
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TWO TALIBANS: THEIRS AND OURS
Malala Yousafzai is the 17-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head and neck by a Pakistani Taliban gunman. Her “crime”? Campaigning for the right of girls and women to pursue an...
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WHAT TRUMP SHARES WITH OTHER DICTATORS
“And I have to say, I don’t understand Donald [Trump’s] bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.” The speaker was Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary...
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“BOXING IN” HITLER AND TRUMP
After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, many people feared he would embark on a radical Right-wing agenda. But others hoped that the Washington bureaucracy would “box him in.” The same sentiments...
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PRESIDENTS: WHY SOME ARE LOVED, SOME HATED, SOME FORGOTTEN
Why are some Presidents remembered with affection, while others are detested—or forgotten altogether? Generally, Presidents who are warmly remembered are seen as making positive contributions to the...
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TRUMP VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT: PART ONE (OF THREE)
“Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake news NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very...
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TRUMP VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT: PART TWO (OF THREE)
On May 10, 2018, The Hill reported that White House Special Assistant Kelly Sadler had joked derisively about dying Arizona United States Senator John McCain. McCain, a Navy pilot during the Vietnam...
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TRUMP VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT: PART THREE (END)
In January, 2018, the White House banned the use of personal cell phones in the West Wing. The official reason: National security. The real reason: To stop staffers from leaking to reporters....
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GERMANY’S INFAMOUS PAST IS AMERICA’S FUTURE LEGACY
Those who have seen the classic 1960 movie, “Judgment at Nuremberg,” will remember its pivotal moment. That’s when Burt Lancaster, as Ernst Janning, the once distinguished German judge, confesses his...
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TRUMP’S INSANITY IS AMERICA’S REALITY: PART ONE (OF FOUR)
From the beginning of his Presidency, Donald Trump aroused fear—based not only of what he might do, but that he might be mentally unbalanced. Consider: His egomania is literally stamped on his...
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TRUMP’S INSANITY IS AMERICA’S REALITY: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
On March 4, 2017, less than two months after taking office as President, Donald Trump—offering absolutely no evidence—accused former President Barack Obama of illegally tapping his Trump Tower phones...
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TRUMP’S INSANITY IS AMERICA’S REALITY: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
Donald Trump’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC) on March 2, 2019, was an occasion for rejoicing among his supporters. But for those who prize rationality and decency...
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TRUMP’S INSANITY IS AMERICA’S REALITY: PART FOUR (END)
“Drawing Present-Day Lessons: Is Donald Trump the Modern Caligula?” That’s the question raised in the last chapter of the new biography: Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome, by Stephen Dando-Collins...
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DONALD TRUMP AS HOWARD BEALE
Donald Trump has been compared to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Gaius Caligula. But perhaps his counterpart lies not in history but in fiction. Specifically, the fictional news anchor Howard Beale...
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AMERICAN COWARDICE IN TIMES OF PERIL
“One man with courage,” said frontier general Andrew Jackson, “makes a majority.” Yet many “heroes” come out of the woodwork only after the danger is safely past. On September 25, 2019, GOP consultant...
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PROTECTING AMERICA FROM A LEGACY OF EVIL
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a sense of history that many of his colleagues—especially Republicans—would do well to acquire. Since September, he has headed an...
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A COWARD’S VERSION OF COURAGE
“One man with courage,” said frontier general Andrew Jackson, “makes a majority.” Yet many “heroes” come out of the woodwork only after the danger is safely past. On September 25, 2019, GOP consultant...
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DONALD BEVIN’S REVENGE: PART ONE (OF TWO)
On November 5, Kentucky voters refused to re-elect Republican Governor Matt Bevin. To get revenge, he issued more than 650 pardons to hardened criminals before he left office on December 9. He claimed...
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