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By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories. Written by Steve Kroll, a long-dead friend, it focused on the eternally...

Financial bailouts have become a fact of American life. Yet the biggest price tag may well be connected to the Caribbean. Welcome to Puerto Rico, home of photogenic beaches, lush forests, chic nightclubs, and less happily, at least $70 billion...

“It is going to be so easy.” Those were the words candidate Donald Trump used in October, imagining a future where he, as president, would replace the Affordable Care Act with something “great.” In reality, no presidency is easy—the office’s unique...

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Jerusalem attack exposes Israel's false peace partner What possesses a father of four with most of his life still ahead of him to get behind the wheel of a truck and embark on a vehicular murder spree that will almost certainly...

To say that this is the election from hell is to insult hell. There’s been nothing like this since Washington forded the Rubicon or Trump crossed the Delaware or delivered the Gettysburg Address (you know, the one that began “Four score and eleven women...