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Prisoners Of War Can't Be Treated Like Most Prisoners<em></em>
This piece is part of a recurring series that aims to be a complete guide to the laws of war. You can read previous entries here....
What Are The Laws Of War, And Why Do They Matter?
There are laws in war....
God Bless Alcides Escobar, The Actual Replacement-Level Player<em></em>
Back in the olden days of baseball writers and fans arguing about wins above replacement—say, five or 10 years ago—there was this claim that the concept of the replacement-level player was completely made-up, something too squishy to define concretely. What are you measuring from? said the wised-up ...
Stop Using Pat Tillman
In the 13 years since Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, he has become a symbol of the supposedly tight bonds between American football and American militarism and American patriotism. There’s no clearer evidence of Tillman’s symbolic potency than Donald Tr...
Joe Namath Yakked About North Korea With Karl Rove On Fox News For Some Reason
As the United States faces escalating international tensions, who better to soothe the country than a septuagenarian chiefly famous for throwing the football and once shaving his mustache on TV?...
We're The Only Ones Who Can Stop This War
A couple of weeks ago, despite their party controlling the entire legislative pipeline, the Republicans’ effort to unravel and replace the Affordable Care Act—a movement-defining initiative they’d been promising for over seven years—collapsed after a mere 17 days, without ever coming up for a formal...
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Trump Administration Has Attacked Syria [Updated]
The United States has launched missiles at an air base in Syria, according to several reports....
Reports: Trump Administration About To Bomb Syria<em></em>
According to NBC’s Richard Engel, “senior US military officials” are weighing the possibility of air strikes against the Syrian regime, and it’s possible they could come “within the next couple hours.”...
Would You, Personally, Kill Assad?
The modern world is full of people who love to proclaim that they would have killed Hitler. Okay, sure, sure. But what would you do now? ...
You Cretins Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed<em></em>
Here’s what you have to understand about the sort of people who become anchors, nonpartisan pundits, centrist columnists, and cable news political correspondents: They didn’t sign up to be the resistance. They don’t want Donald Trump to fail. They want him to “pivot” and “act presidential.”...
Apocalypse Is The Only Path To Equality, Says The New Prophet Of Doom
Perhaps you imagine that enlightened lawmaking will bring our nation’s rampant inequality problem under control. History tells us the prognosis may be much, much more grim. We spoke to the author of one of the scariest books we have ever read. ...
War Man
Of all of the bad things that Donald Trump might do to the world, perhaps the worst would be to drag us into a war. God help us if one of his top advisors turned out to be some sort of warmonger. ...