To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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How Vance Betrayed Our Values In Munich

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Few Americans would welcome an elected leader from Germany or France who gave a speech on our soil, urging politicians here to stop shunning the Ku Klux Klan. Yet that isn’t so far from the message delivered to European officials by Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 14 – which understandably provoked outrage among our allies, just as Vance and his boss, President Donald Trump, must have intended. Instead of […]

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Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.