Stars and Stripes Forever
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It pains me to see the legacy of a newspaper my grandfather helped build — one born from America’s triumph over fascism — threatened by the whims of a president who seems to view criticism as treason.
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There is an uncomfortable irony at the heart of today’s politics: the loudest champions of so-called “Christian nationalism” often claim that Islamic extremism represents everything America must oppose—while echoing many of its underlying impulses. To be clear, there are vast…
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It’s not worth debating the so-called finer points of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. To borrow from the fictional lawyer Vincent Gambini: “Everything that guy just said is bullshit.” When the president wasn’t inflating his accomplishments or sidestepping…
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Elon Musk repeatedly denied his connections to Jeffrey Epstein – that was bull shit. He also repeatedly claimed that Donald Trump was in the Epstein files -that was true. He also claimed that many powerful people were eager to have…
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Let’s be clear about one thing up front: no serious person is claiming that ICE officers are equivalent to Nazis. But the sight of federal agents stopping people on the street and demanding “papers” understandably triggers uncomfortable historical echoes. That…
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Last week President Trump promoted an AI-generated video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. When the backlash hit, Trump claimed he hadn’t shared the clip personally—that a staffer had done it by mistake, and that he only intended to…
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With the constant deluge of bad news, who’s to say if God might not be considering another flood, or at least a little well-aimed divine retribution? Open any newspaper or scroll any screen and the evidence piles up: wars that…
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By Georgia Chioni According to L. Van Duk, fashion is intrinsically linked to the idea that humans possess an innate sense of dynamism, and that learning itself consists in the discovery and development of this dynamism. When fashion is approached…
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By Katie Johntz What? Are you pilfering again?raidingthe icebox? cheating on some wife—tempting the sumptuous,sensuous woman who shelterson the outskirts of town? youwho want nothingother than not to be forced—enforced—notto be pressured in any direction? want not to be guidedaway from…
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The world watches aghast as the Iranian regime unleashes a brutal crackdown on civil protesters. With telecommunications blacked out and reliable reporting suppressed, the death toll is likely in the thousands — a grim testament to authoritarian violence. In this…
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