We are trained to see war as a failure of diplomacy. It is often a failure of perception long before diplomacy begins. We usually arrive at violence too

(Emmett Tatter is a writer who spent nearly 10 years in Florida prisons. He has recently finished a book, lectured at Flagler College, and started a

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted this cartoon of himself with ‘Coalie,’ a lump of coal. Interior Secretary Doug Burgam/X If you follow the Trump

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At the end of Caroline Fraser’s disturbing discussion of three books on the waste crisis that is harming the poor and destroying the globe, she concludes,

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Senate Republicans, the Associated Press reports, plan to give the Secret Service $1 billion for "security upgrades" to president Donald Trump's 

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So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The

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If you're wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It's