Month: November 2018

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A Bridge Too Farr

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On November 30, 2018
The fact that one of the Republican senators from South Carolina couldn’t stomach having a Jesse Helms protege in every sense on the federal bench while the Republican senator from Maine was cool with it shows the value of diverse voices at the margin: On Thursday, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., announced that he would not support the […]
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Fighter vs. Bomber II

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On November 30, 2018
The second part of my series on the history of fighters fighting bombers (or pursuit planes pursuing bombers, if you prefer) is up… The war put extraordinary demands on every air force. Within a year of the opening of World War II, the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force put every theory of the balance […]
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The most obvious consequence of the voter fraud fraud and the accompanying neoconfederate assault on voting rights by the Republican Party is people — disproportionately racial minorities — being denied their right to vote. But there are individuals who face even worse consequences: As you can see, she was allowed to vote due to bureaucratic […]

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On November 29, 2018

Some links for your reading pleasure: Dmitry Gorenburg and Michael Kofman on the Battle of Kerch Straits Nationalism and the Left, by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. More complicated than this, I think, but

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The 20 Film Challenge

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On November 29, 2018
  I decided to take part in the #20FilmChallenge because I loved the idea of curating a list that is deeply personal to me using only a single image for each film. The 20 Film Challenge asks you to list movies that had an impact on you. I chose the following movies because they made […]
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