Don't ignore Bannon. He wants a modern day Crusade in the Middle-East.
Submitted by subir on Wed, 11/16/2016 - 8:18pmIshaan Tharoor has a piece in WaPo today: ISIS wants to fight a holy war. So do some Trump supporters.
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History and Identity Politics
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 11/10/2016 - 5:30pmAmerican's ignorance of basic historical facts is well documented.
In fact, the results from some polls is downright alarming.
An American president once put a political opponent in jail for making an anti-war speech.
Submitted by subir on Tue, 10/11/2016 - 12:32pmMany of us were shocked when Donald Trump threatened/suggested Hillary Clinton would be prosecuted and imprisoned if he had control of the Justice Department. Here’s a typical response:
War or Crime? An Alternative History of 9/11
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 09/11/2016 - 10:40amIt’s been 15 years since an unelected administration put us on the permanent war footing we inhabit today, and transformed our nation utterly.
I wish I could say a terrible beauty is born, but unlike the Irish revolution, the post-9-11 American state can claim no beauty to accompany its terrors.
Fighting Fascism: "When Courage Goes Unrewarded" (Part I)
Submitted by JekyllnHyde on Thu, 08/04/2016 - 9:49pmIf a war resulting in tens of millions of casualties can be described as such, over the years World War II came to be known as the "Good War" for much of the Western world. It is often said that the victors of a war, any war, write its history. This is almost always true with perhaps one major exception.
The True Lesson of Pyrrhus
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 7:42pmA lot of people have been calling Hillary's victory a Pyrrhic Victory.
As commonly understood, this is a battle in which you take such heavy losses, that you lose the war. However, while poetic, this is not really what the victory of Pyrrhus was, or should represent.
Important dates in history for lesser-of-two-evils voters
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 07/15/2016 - 4:50pm10 April 1932: Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected President of Germany as a lesser of evils, the greater evil being Adolf Hitler of the NSDAP ("Nazi Party"). Germany was thus indefinitely saved from Nazi rule. No, wait -- that's not what happened at all, so:
The Birth of a Movement, the End of Democracy
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Mon, 06/06/2016 - 1:30pmPart I: Boy, I Hope This Doesn't Suck
I made a comment last weekend that Joe, gulfgal, and JtC asked me to turn into an essay. The gist of the comment is that arguing about whether we should be focused on electoral politics or not misses the point of where we are, politically, right now. It's been a hell of a slog trying to make it into an essay, because I'm trying to sum up where I think we are politically without writing a 6-book series and boring you all to tears! So, I hope this doesn't suck--and I beg your indulgence.
How did public bathrooms get to be separated by sex in the first place?
Submitted by TheJerry on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 1:42pmThe Conversation has a very interesting, and relatively short post on the history of gender specific bathrooms.
How did public bathrooms get to be separated by sex in the first place?
For one thing, separate bathrooms is fairly new
What if they gave an election and nobody came?
Submitted by don mikulecky on Thu, 05/19/2016 - 4:23pmDoes that sound funny to you? Think about it. It has been happening for a long time for a lot of people in this country. Bernie has been energizing people who have stayed at home in the past because they see a real choice in him.
I learned something from President Obama that I shall never forget. I learned that I am not as smart as I think I am. I learned that I forget hard learned lessons. Let me explain.
