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We react to the new Down, listen to Church of Misery, and discuss Douglas Carter getting released from prison after 41 years on death row.

“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline. I’m solo today, digging into the most relevant sections of the interview and separating performative victory claims from what the conflict actually looks like on the ground and in the policy choices coming out of Washing...

Now America needs to “turn off” the leased Trident II D5 SLBM missiles on the HMS Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant, and Vengeance, which maintain the UK’s Continuous At-Sea Deterrent (CASD)and close out the agreement indefinitely. The UK can keep the Holbrook Mk-4A warheads.

Around 30% to 40% of the Royal Navy’s major surface combatant...

“Why don’t you write something nice? That will make people smile, and be happy?”

I am certain that many writers past and present who occupy the field I am in, are asked this question. Why write about the misery of the world? Why look into the injustices? And peer through the cracks, to see what is often intentionally unseen. Why ask questions of people who may p...

The Iraq War has been a “still going” story for so long that it barely feels real when someone says it might finally be ending. We sit down with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson to talk through what the last American forces leaving Iraq could actually mean, not just for Baghdad, but for the bigger U.S. posture across Southwest Asia and the political reality that Washington may be gett...