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ift.tt/2LavD5M Trump’s goal has nothing to do with peace on the Korean peninsula, or even with making America great again. It’s all about making Trump feel great. I spent last week at a conference in South Korea, during which time…

ift.tt/2L6WFey I would have expected that all of Israel’s renowned writers would publish a thundering joint condemnation while the Gaza shooting was still going on. It did not happen. The political “opposition” was contemptible. No word from the Labor party.…

ift.tt/2J2XTXH Donald Trump has been in office 16 months. And the majority of media hours and column inches spent on his administration deal primarily with the Russia investigation, Stormy Daniels, and Trump’s personnel intrigue. It’s not that there isn’t great…

ift.tt/2H6rfT5 Federal Magistrate Judge Ronald G. Morgan is in his 60s, with a bright-pink face and a crisp, friendly manner — though lately he has been making disconcerting little mistakes in court. He has spent eight years on the bench…

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ift.tt/2kmEBBF Although the peace movement is not a loud voice at this time in the US, it should be. In this introduction of A Nation Unmade by War, Tom Engelhardt discusses the history of the United States’s 21st century conflicts and…

ift.tt/2KJm5OZ Still from Wild Wild Country.   In March, I sent an announcement around to friends and colleagues: watch out for my new novel, Buddhism for Western Children. It’s a spiraling story of a powerful, manipulative guru versus a boy…

ift.tt/2rY3dFg Joseph Kayan, a Goroka Show participant from Chimbu Province, wears boar tusks and the tail of a tree kangaroo around his neck. The design of his headdress is specific to his village: it includes bird-of-paradise feathers, with reeds to…

ift.tt/2rZzU4j Make your podcast available on your website (in addition to iTunes, Stitcher, etc). You’ll increase web traffic and get more podcast exposure from a different type of audience Podcasting is currently one of the most vibrant activities in the…

ift.tt/2k8R0Ju One of them has to be lying. That conclusion is inescapable if you closely examine the sworn testimony of two erstwhile FBI allies, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, about the leaking episode that led to McCabe’s firing in March.…

ift.tt/2rNVPMn If Araki’s self-presentation is authenticity, it is a stylized, theatrical form of authenticity. His mode is not confessional in the way Nan Goldin’s is. Araki is not interested in showing his most intimate feelings. He is a showman as…

ift.tt/2L8Tl3i For hobbyists trying to strike it rich with cryptocurrency mining, but who don’t have access to gigantic warehouses where they can park the hardware, making money means packing a bunch of very loud and very hot computers into your…

ift.tt/2rNiqI4 This article includes graphic images that some readers may find disturbing. There is a largely hidden, poorly regulated, and highly profitable industry in the United States that has a gruesome function: breeding dogs for the sole purpose of often…

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea threw next month’s unprecedented summit between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump into doubt on Wednesday, threatening weeks of diplomatic progress by saying it may reconsider if Washington insists on pursuing a one-sided…

ift.tt/2rL6bfj (The first in a series of diaries from the oddest House primary race in America) PART ONE The Vig Woodstock high school history teacher Jeff Beals decided to run for Congress late last year. He set up a time…

ift.tt/2IInoRc Years before he worked alongside Thurgood Marshall on Brown vs. The Board of Education, attorney Loren Miller spent the summer of 1932 in Moscow helping to edit a Soviet anthology of “Negro poetry.” Miller had arrived that June with…