Image by Alex Shuper. Too many are copacetic about nuclear weapons. That nukes have not been used since Nagasaki leads them to conclude their use is so insane they will not be used, so everything is fine. The reality is far different, and the India-Pakistan conflict...
Photo by Ashwin Vaswani With its meteoric rise chronicled in the New York Times under the comical headline “Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal” Compact magazine since its inception carved out a novel niche: its masthead featured an eclectic...
Image Source: Joachim Kupke – CC BY-SA 4.0 Notwithstanding the manner in which headlines of Indian papers and channels are shrieking about India edging closer towards war with Pakistan, also known as its permanent enemy, answers to several questions seem to be getting...
The March on the Pentagon, 21 October 1967, an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam – Public Domain The Vietnam War (which ended 50 years ago on April 30, 1975) era caused so many powerful feelings and...
Image by Emad El Byed. The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups...
Photo: David Bacon. On the plane to Hanoi in December of 2015, I opened my morning copy of the New York Times to find an article by Dave Philipps: “After 60 Years, B-52’s Still Dominate the U.S. Fleet.” The piece stuck with me. For the next two weeks as I traveled...
Photo by Stephen Tafra on Unsplash When President Trump’s cabinet picks trooped up to Capitol Hill earlier this year for Senate confirmation hearings, hardly any boasted about their past union connections. But Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins did. He helped...
Photo by Kyle Ryan The mainstream media have examined the governance of Donald Trump over the first term and the hundred days of the second term, using the familiar techniques of bureaucratic politics and the use of mostly anonymous sources. In this way, the media...
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