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The Democratic Old Guard Shoots Down a Rising Star Who Appeals to the Youth and Latino Vote
An Expert on Terrorism on Charging Luigi Mangione With Terrorism
Jeff Bezos Bends the Knee Today at Mar a Lago, as Trump Muses About Privatizing the USPS
As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Preemptively Capitulates
The Latest of 323 School Shootings This Year Involves a 15-Year Old Girl Who Killed 2, Wounded 6, and Shot Herself at Her Christian School
Our “Christo-Fascists” Compared to the Islamo-Fascists We Decry
Jordan Faces Collapse, With Israel’s Proposed Annexation of the West Bank
An Alternative to Our Broken “Healthcare” System That Does Not Waste Trillions While Delaying and Denying Care
The Fall of the German Government and Whether Support For Ukraine Will Continue
Will Trump and His Shills for Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin’s America?
Israel and Turkey Appear to be the Winners in Syria, While Russia and Iran are the Losers
How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein in Food Monopolies Like WalMart
Wall Street’s Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive “Healthcare” in the Developed World
How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels
The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan’s Murderous Militia in the New Syria
Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins
America’s Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO’s Get a Slap on the Wrist
Kash Patel’s FBI Will Go After Trump’s Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin’s Spies
How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics
How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump’s “America First” Unilateralism and Biden’s “America is Back” Nostalgia
“It’s Going to Be Fun” Says Ramaswamy, Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the U.S.
The Champion of Working Class Voters’ Big Con, As Trump Forms a Government Of, By, and For Plutocrats
The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret U.S.-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran
What Trump’s Pick of Feinberg as Number Two at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget
South Korea’s President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down
Trump Threatens There’ll Be “All Hell To Pay in the Middle East” If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration
Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?
