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DEMOCRACY was not actually “on the ballot” in 2024. That was just a metaphor by…
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The current era of liar’s democracy began innocently enough when President Dwight D. Eisenhower engaged…
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Toward the end of my New Mexico journalistic career, I had a run-in with a…
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INTRO: One of the few Hindu beliefs that Buddhism carried from northern India in its…
Trinity
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The only color photo of the first nuclear explosion (c)…
Trinity Site
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As a kid at La Luz, said the beloved MacArthur Prize philosopher, “We wandered all…
Hiroshima
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They were teenagers from Japan, summer students at the Shumei Institute near my home. It…
English As A Second Language
November, 1902
The chairman of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on statehood got off the train, rode around…