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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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One Word Describes What Trump Has Done

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As Americans struggle to grasp President Donald Trump’s reversal of American foreign policy, which abruptly overturned decades of cooperation with other democracies to contain authoritarian aggression, many observers have faltered. Describing what Trump has done strains the usual vocabulary of analysts, who are still not fully prepared to confront this administration’s insidious purposes. Yet there is a word familiar from Trump’s first term that now defines precisely what he and Russian President Vladimir Putin are […]

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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.