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The murder of Pat Tillman is one of those things that if explained in plain language reads as conspiracy theory, because surely there's no way that the poster boy quarterback

The F-35, by virtue of three decades of development and crowding out all other alternatives, has become a singularly perfect metaphor for spending trade-offs made by the US, in a

There's much to say about this, but let me start with this: single issue "drone strikes are bad" voters don't exist, with the possible exception of editorial positions at certain

One of the stranger facts of history is that Kissinger, a man with as much blood on his hands as virtually anybody to serve in US government in the 20th

Something essential about police tactics that came up, over and over, when researching this story is that a narrower focus on less-lethal weapons can obscure an entire discussion on less-lethal

"Contrary to a common misconception, the shape of the mushroom cloud does not depend on the nuclear or thermonuclear component; as you note, a massive detonation of chemical explosives would

For @sciam I took a look at less-lethal weapons. As is probably unsurprising, weapons designed for narrow use in edge cases are easily & commonly misused against crowds. People suffer

10 weeks of furlough straight into a layoff my dms are open and I'm available for freelance. I don't have a ton of illusions about the sustainability of journalism beset