At 8:03 a.m. on Easter Sunday, the President of the United States posted a war threat on social media. He named a target. He named a day. He dropped profanity. He invoked Allah. He signed his name in all caps. This is the man with the nuclear codes. Donald Trump woke up this morning, while […]
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On September 5, 2024, a voter at the Economic Club of New York asked Donald Trump what he planned to do about the cost of child care. He called it a “very important issue.” He said, specifically of daycare, “In this country, you have to have it.” Of course, he was running for president then. […]
There is a temptation, in times of war and outrage, to flatten the world into two categories: those who condemn evil and those who enable it. It is a tempting simplicity. It is also a lie. Let us be precise about Iran. Not careful. Precise. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic dictatorship. It […]
He started a war nobody asked for, and now he’s angry that nobody wants to finish it for him. Let that sink in. Roll it around. Hold it up to the light. A man who spent years telling NATO it was worthless, who stood before cameras and informed the alliance that American troops had carried […]
The president of the United States stood in the Oval Office this week and announced that a person who admits to having a learning disability is, by that admission, dumb. He said it four times in less than a week. He said it at rallies. He said it on social media. He said it to […]
“He who is the author of war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”— Thomas Paine, 1778 These are not merely times that try men’s souls. These are times that test whether we possess souls at all. We were promised an end to regime change. […]
“The ice is tilted,” we hockey fans say when one team is so dominant it feels as though they are skating downhill while their opponent claws uphill for oxygen. One end of the rink becomes a siege. The puck rarely leaves it. Momentum is obvious. When the White House elevates the U.S. men’s hockey team […]
Friends. Americans. Countrymen: We were asked to stand. Stand, if we believe the first duty of government is to protect citizens before “illegals.” And many did stand. For who would not stand for safety?Who would not defend his child, his street, his own door? I am a citizen.I claim the protection of this nation gladly. […]
Under Donald Trump officials and media surrogates have reached for a familiar incantation: domestic terrorism. It has been applied not only to protestors, but to movements, to gatherings, to grief itself. In some cases, it has been applied to people who are now dead. That detail matters. When someone is killed during a protest and […]
I’ve been asked, repeatedly, why I would choose to see this film at all. The question usually arrives wearing a tone, the implication stitched neatly inside it: Why expose yourself to that? My answer is simple and unfashionable. Know the enemy. Or, more precisely, know the story the enemy tells itself. I do not believe […]