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October 31, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Pete Hegseth Has Dumbest Defense Yet for Trump Resuming Nuclear Tests
The United States has not tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s.
October 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
ICE Spent 600% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You.
Donald Trump is arming his masked immigration agents to the teeth.
July 29, 2025
Edith Olmsted
GOP Senator Responds to New York Shooting. You’ll Wish He Hadn’t.
If there were better “idiot control” laws, maybe we wouldn’t have to deal with comments like this.
July 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Claim on Ukraine Aid Raises Question of Who’s In Control
Donald Trump had a bewildering answer when asked who had ordered a pause on aid to Ukraine.
June 17, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Warns “We” Control Iran’s Airspace in Ominous Post
Donald Trump casually conflated the U.S. and Israel in the terrifying threat.
June 17, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Putin Gives Trump Middle Finger With New Attack on Ukraine
The attack, which killed 15 people including an American citizen, came hours after Donald Trump publicly sucked up to Vladimir Putin.
May 13, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Old Man Trump Falls Asleep in Middle of Saudi Briefing on Arms Deal
Donald Trump appears to have dozed off in the middle of a key briefing.
May 13, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Signs Massive Arms Deal With Psychopath Saudi Leader
The Trump administration is bragging about making the “largest defense sales agreement in history.”
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Vance Just Made Trump’s Dolls Comment Even Weirder
JD Vance took Donald Trump’s comments to an even more nonsensical place.
January 17, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Biden Just Gave Away Netanyahu’s Whole Game. And It’s Bad.
Joe Biden tried to joke about Benjamin Netanyahu “carpet bombing” Gaza.
October 23, 2024
Edith Olmsted
MAGA Republican Takes Shocking Stand on U.S. Arms Sales to Israel
Representative Thomas Massie made his opinion clear.
July 23, 2024
Paige Oamek
Major Labor Unions Make Shocking Show of Force Toward Biden on Israel
Seven major labor unions urged an end to weapons shipments to Israel.
August 18, 2014
Josh Kovensky
From Nazi Resistance to Ferguson's Unrest: The Weird History of the Molotov Cocktail
August 14, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Those War-Ready Cops in Ferguson Are 9/11's Awful Legacy—and Your Taxes Are Paying for It
July 17, 2014
Jessica Schulberg, Josh Kovensky
Where Did Ukraine's Rebels Get the Missile Launcher That Allegedly Shot Down the Malaysia Airlines Plane?
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Michael Kelly
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Virginia Woolf
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

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