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Thoughts on Doctor Strange

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I saw Doctor Strange last night. And as I said on Twitter, while it might not be the best Marvel movie ever, it may have come closest to feeling like the original comic come to life, overflowing with the trippy visuals, corny but evocative mysticism, and just...

Nixon!

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, and Creighton Abrams, 1968[/caption] My latest in Counter-Factual Theater: What if Nixon had never gone to China? China’s shift of weight towards.

On the latest (albeit not election-themed) episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks with Shadi Hamid about Syria, war, and intervention: When is U.S. military intervention a good thing? 9:39 What shapes Obama’s approach to the Middle East? 12:33 The costs of nonintervention 7:14 Syria as the...

Music Notes

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The great country songwriter Curly Putman is dead. He wrote such hits as "The Green, Green Grass of Home," "D.I.V.O.R.C.E" "Dumb Blonde" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Pretty amazing.

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Sick Leave

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The national conversation about the social safety net is in terrible shape, far behind where it was in the 1970s. There are of course sharp structural reasons for this, as the rise of the conservative movement and the reestablishment of corporate control over politics makes the...
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