The Atlantic has posted a link-farm of their best articles on race and policing.
The Atlantic has posted a link-farm of their best articles on race and policing.
One of the things I loathe is America’s infatuation with its military.
The scenario we usually believe has Roosevelt, who was ailing and near death, participating in the Yalta conference with Stalin and Churchill – dividing up the spoils after Japan was going to be conquered.
Imagine you have a friend who wants to stick their tongue in a light socket. You tell them, “bad idea. It’ll hurt and that’s not necessary if you want to learn about electricity.”
This is one of those Trump real estate deals: The Japanese Government buys an island and lets the US Navy have it.
In 2007 I did a speaking tour of eastern Europe, including Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Croatia. I spent a night in Belgrade, but my talk was canceled because there were anti-American skinheads waiting outside the hotel looking for Americans to beat up.
I admit I enjoyed reading the article in The Daily Beast about what incompetent louts Donald Trump, Jr. and Jared Kushner are.
When there are flood waters, it’s easy to forget how completely everything gets damaged. There’s the obvious stuff, like rivers of pig shit and urine going into the rivers and then everyone’s living room, but what about the subtle stuff – the stuff most of us won’t even think of?
The FBI announced that they arrested a white supremacist who was planning to blow up a synagogue. [slate]
This is interesting stuff. For one thing, it does a good job of showing the extreme lengths that you must go to to obtain even tiny amounts of plutonium.