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“Now what?”
Machines of loving grace. Morris, Connecticut, 2006. (Kenneth C. Zirkel/ Wikimedia Commons.)
4 NOVEMBER—A reader with a gift for cutting comment wrote in response to the column published in this space prior to yesterday’s elections:
Th...
“Messily, corruptly, uncertainly, America goes to the polls.”
No chads to hang. From Elements of Civil Government, by Alexander L. Peterman, 1891. (Wikimedia Commons.)
1 NOVEMBER—Last spring, when it was already evident the ruling Republican Party was losing favor with American voters and Donald Trum...
“Sound and fury in Israel.”
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The Gaza Strip, 2025. (Jaber Jehad Badwan/ Wikimedia Commons.)
29 OCTOBER—The whole world, or a goodly proportion of it, surely watched as the minority of enfranchised voters living under Israeli rule went...
“‘All hell is breaking loose everywhere.’”
On the eve of Israel’s elections, the assault on Hebron appears to announce the Zionists’ ‘Elimination Project.’
26 OCTOBER—Whenever the Zionists speak or make any kind of representation of events, it is essential to remember Hannah Arendt...
“Trump and the Rrrrussians.”
Have I got a deal for you. Osaka, 2019. (Kremlin.ru, cc by 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)
23 OCTOBER—Given the gush of vitriol and condemnation since Oct. 9, when Donald Trump announced his deal to import 5 million metric tons of Russian diesel,...
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