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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 Neighborhood Gruel Committee

Somewhere in America right now, a man is craning his neck over a stranger’s shopping cart. He has spotted something obscene. Not a weapon. Not contraband. A box of Trix. The stranger paid with SNAP. The man does the math immediately, the way outrage always does math: badly, and with total confidence. He has decided […]

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Getting Used to It

Ten. That is the count now, in this administration alone, of human beings shot and killed by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Not accidents. Not natural causes. Shot. Ten. And the tenth barely made the news cycle before it moved on to something else. His name was Lorenzo Salgado […]

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