5 Infuriating Takeaways from the ‘Afghanistan Papers’
Lies, spin, over a trillion dollars wasted, and no strategy. They knew for 18 years and no one said a thing.
Barbara Boland
December 10, 2019
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ROD DREHER
Our Lying Military, Our Lying Government
Washington Post publishes secret US documents showing that leadership has long known the Afghan war was unwinnable
Rod Dreher
December 9, 2019
In Defense Of Doomsayers
Rod Dreher
December 9, 2019
The Ed Orgeron Rule For Sartorial Normalcy
Rod Dreher
December 9, 2019
DANIEL LARISON
What Explains Trump’s Twisted Embrace of Saudi Arabia?
Whatever the full explanation turns out to be, the ever-closer embrace of the Saudis has been a disaster for U.S. foreign policy, the people of Yemen, and the stability of the region.
Daniel Larison
December 9, 2019
Taking the Saudis at ‘Their Word’ and Other Failures
Daniel Larison
December 9, 2019
The Lies That Keep America at War
Daniel Larison
December 9, 2019
STATE OF THE UNION
Revenge? Military Industrial Complex Sponsors Eisenhower Ornament
Lockheed appropriates presidential history to slap its brand on an annual tradition.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
December 9, 2019
This is What ‘Withdrawal’ Looks Like
Matt Purple
December 5, 2019
Fear and Loathing At NATO
Curt Mills
December 4, 2019
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So 14,000 Troops to the Middle East ‘Fake News’? Not So Fast
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Pete Buttigieg and the Mercenary Religious Left
If progressives think they can enlist Christianity just to win politically, they’re in for a rude awakening.
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Elizabeth Warren is All About Patronage, Not Progressivism
The Democrat is seeking to replace middle-class capitalism with the clientelistic demands of identity groups.
Christopher Whalen
December 9, 2019
TAC Bookshelf: In Defense of Margaret Atwood’s ‘Testaments’
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December 8, 2019
In Defense of the Noble Freelancer
Big media outlets claim to speak for the powerless, so why do they treat their own employees like trash?
James Jeffrey
December 6, 2019
China Just Opened the Suez Canal of Our Era and No One Blinked
The Belt and Road Initiative comes to Turkey in a big way, but the West is too distracted to notice or care.
Geoffrey Aronson
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The Campaign to Lie America Into World War II
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Hunter DeRensis
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Peter Fonda: We Got ‘Easy Rider’ Wrong, Man
The late actor disagreed that his film was about a lack of freedom in 1960s America. Quite the opposite.
Bill Kauffman
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