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Meet Your New Supreme Leader

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This sounds fine. Iran projected defiance in the face of expanding U.S.-Israeli attacks on Monday by naming a son of its slain supreme leader as his successor, disregarding warnings from the Trump administration, while a surge in oil prices signaled growing alarm over the war’s effect...
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The Peale of Trump

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This is a really important and not widely understood point about Trump and why his second administration is going particularly badly: Once again reminding everyone that Trump's actual philosophy is "the power of positive thinking" a delusional, narcissistic philosophy where you presume success of every venture...
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Kinetic illegality

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The Iraq war was illegal, and a massive collection of war crimes, but at least the Bush administration went to great lengths over many months to construct what lawyers call a "colorable" argument that it wasn't. The most salient feature of the Iran war is that...
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Music Notes

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I saw Jason Isbell at the Wang Theater in Boston last week--fancy! This was my 13th Isbell show, briefly putting him alone in 2nd for the most times I've seen an artist (but the other who is at 12, James McMurtry, I will be going to...
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