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On a chilly Monday just before Thanksgiving, residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania hurried from work in the fading autumn light to snag seats in the old brick Borough Building for a 5 p.m. council meeting. After the roughly 50 seats quickly filled, people continued to pack the room, standing along the walls or wedging themselvesContinue Reading

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The drumbeats for expanding our (and Israel’s) war with Iran are loud. Cable news panels talk about strategy. Politicians talk about deterrence. Pentagon briefings talk about targets and timelines. But there’s one thing missing from almost every conversation in Washington. Risk. Not the geopolitical kind. Not the think-tank kind. Real risk. TheContinue Reading

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The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Take a look at the four images below and tell me what you see. If my life depended on it, I could not name a single one of the TV shows pictured here and, if you told me they were allContinue Reading

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commentary MAGA bros hoped the defense secretary would make them feel butch — with Iran war, he embarrasses them Published March 13, 2026 6:45AM (EDT) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is known for his chest-thumping (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Pete Hegseth has an abnormal obsession with how he looks in photographs. This isContinue Reading