Month: January 2017

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Plan Z

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On January 4, 2017

The National Interest asked me to contribute a piece on Plan Z: In the mid-1930s, the Nazi government began to plan in detail for the reconstruction of German naval power. The destruction of the Germa

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State Action on Coal

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In General
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On January 4, 2017
Since the Trump Administration is going to SAVE COAL!!!, I wonder how it will respond to the western states refusing to allow coal development in the ports required to ship it overseas. Washington state dealt a blow Tuesday to the last remaining coal export terminal proposed along the West Coast, throwing the viability of the […]

Direct action by the NAACP

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In civil rights
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On January 3, 2017
I hate that this is necessary, but glad to see it’s happening. Protesters from the N.A.A.C.P., including its national president, were arrested on Tuesday after an hourslong sit-in at the Mobile, Ala., office of Senator Jeff Sessions, where they demanded that he withdraw his name from consideration as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s attorney general. Almost […]
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Remember when Lewis Lapham wrote some cliches about a Republican convention that hadn’t happened yet as if he had already watched it? His Harper’s successor’s coverage of the 2016 campaign is the near-equivalent of this. Frank has a narrative about American politics in which it’s always 1996, the Democratic Party is always running to the […]

Foundry?

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On January 3, 2017

I’m on the mailing list for a few defense-oriented DC think tanks, mostly so I can stay abreast of what people are working on. Occasionally, though, I have the chance to spend some time in DC, a

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