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- This is a reprise and amplification of a diary published in December 2024. The discussion is pertinent today because of the incoherent and damaging “National Security Strategy” document released December 5, 2025 by the Trump administration. This...7 comments 18 Recs
- Young people are furious. A survey released this week by the Harvard Institute of Politics finds that under-30 Americans are “a generation under profound strain” who’ve lost pretty much any confidence in government or corporate institutions. By a 57%...33 comments 32 Recs
- When political archaeologists investigate the 2025 collapse of the GOP, Arizona Rep. Eli Crane will be used for a case study into why the Southwest turned blue. Tom Petty wasn’t thinking about Trump and Crane when he wrote Free Fallin’ but its lyrics...8 comments 35 Recs
- The latest South Park episode nailed it: When “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town’s annual holiday race, he declares it an “Antifa uprising” and calls out ...5 comments 37 Recs
- There are harmful administrative decisions that have immediate but reversable negative consequences. But what of decisions that are reversable in policy only – those whose effects will almost ...116 comments 336 Recs
- I remember the many WW2 films where the pure evil of the German enemy was characterized by showing Germans machine-gunning survivors of torpedoed ships, etc. Who would have thought America would one day take over this role of being shockingly cruel and...6 comments 16 Recs
- Oh the irony, it burns. The President of the Greatest Nation on Earth is alternately redecorating the White House (or what remains of it), committing war crimes, and dismantling various domestic clean energy industries, while leaving a great, gaping...24 comments 39 Recs
- Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...118 comments 263 Recs
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