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All Of It

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June 7, 2023

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939

Understanding the more than seven decades of Israeli – Palestinian…

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Ukraine Never Was, Will Never Be, Russia

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March 12, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a massive military assault, a war, on Ukraine, because he claims, Russians and Ukrainians are “one people, a single whole,” and Ukraine…

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Antarctica

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February 22, 2022

February 2018, the ice-rated expedition ship Hebridean Sky, 110 passengers and 70 crew, throttles up the Beagle Channel out of Ushuaia at the southern tip of Patagonia. Anticipation and, yes,…

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The Handshake

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April 15, 2021

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line with the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ AAA International League farm team, on Opening Day, April 18, 1946. Wearing No. 9 – not…

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The Chilling Cost of Open Carry & Assault Weapons

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February 24, 2021

Most Americans were appalled, horrified, by the Trump-instigated January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, in which five people were killed and 140 injured. But…