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Sarah and James Polk; Donald Trump Sources: left , right . He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. —Congressman Abraha...

Back when I was first interested in Russia and the Soviet Union, in my mid-teens, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a new twist on Marxist ...

... even when such violence serves a strategic purpose. When that strategic purpose does not exist, however, the moral case evaporates altog...

Speaking with my mentor, Deborah Haight , at Canadian Yearly Meeting 1976. Also in the frame, Duncan Wood (at right), Katharine Wood (behind...

Source .   Eiffel Tower, Paris, Tennessee Nancy French's home town. Source . Nancy French, Instagram, 2024. Source . This high prais...

Source .   My heart is pounding, words are lining up impatiently at the tip of my tongue, the silent room suddenly feels as if it's hol...

Memories of Elektrostal, Russia, in winter, thanks to Sergey Kadyrov (composer and videographer). (Not related to tonight's post.) T...

Waffen-SS recruitment poster (detail). See full graphic below. The young man walked toward me with a smile, shook my hand, and said, "...

From top: home screens from Threads, Mastodon, Telegram. Back in 2018, when data harvesting and the manipulative use of social networks were...