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Nuremberg

The Allies nearly skipped the trial completely. Early in 1945, Churchill and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau favored summary execution of the top Nazis. Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued that a court would do what a firing squad could not: build a record. President Truman appointed Robert Jackson, a sitting Supreme Court justice, as chief […]

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The Stolen Valor of a Despicable Man

Donald Trump is the lowest of the low. On September 8, 2026, five days before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump stood at a White House ceremony hosted by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and accepted a piece of an American flag holding steel recovered from the World Trade Center’s South […]

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The Shot Heard ‘Round the Honor Roll

Settle down and pay attention. I have uncovered a statistical relationship so strong, so consistent, and so entirely unexamined, that it demands to be published before someone else takes credit for it. In 1971, the United States licensed the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Practically every American child born after that year received […]

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The Client Never Changed

Todd Blanche spent years defending Donald Trump in criminal court. Hush money, classified documents, the conspiracy to overturn an election Trump lost. Blanche took these cases and built a career on them. Now the Senate has confirmed him as Attorney General of the United States, by a vote of 50 to 49, with only two […]

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President Mayonnaise

He stood at his little podium in Marietta, Georgia, and the heat did what four years of consequence never managed. The makeup gave way. Rivulets of bronzer ran the length of his jaw and pooled at his collar, a gob of brown-tinged mayonnaise sliding out the side of a tuna sandwich left too long in […]

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A Tale Told By an Idiot

Shakespeare gave us the phrase for nights like this one: A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Thursday night, in a primetime address he demanded the networks carry (but most didn’t anyway), the President of the United States told his tired tale again. He shared not one fact that […]

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The Community Terror Cell

She lived a few miles from where I am writing this: Irondequoit, New York. A (reasonably) quiet suburb of Rochester, the kind of place with lawns and school pickup lines and absolutely nothing that looks like a terror cell. Federal prosecutors say Catherine Beth Washburn ran one anyway. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested the 37-year-old […]

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REVOLUTION NOW

There is a man you should know. His name is Russell Ellis. He grew up in the mountains of North Carolina inside a home where racism was not a flaw to be corrected but a foundation to be built upon. He was raised, as he puts it plainly, not merely around racists, but by them. […]

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