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The Wages of Another Man's War
There is a particular cruelty in being asked to pay for a war you did not vote for, did not believe in, and were promise
The Receipt
There is a number a man ought to be made to look at. Three hundred and fifty-two billion dollars, since the founding of
The Coin Remembers
There is a particular American tragedy in watching a man who served the institution he helped weaken now insist that the
The Strait and the Schoolhouse
There is a school in Minab, in the south of Iran, that is no longer there. A missile is reported to have killed more tha
The Building on Constitution Avenue
There is, in this country, a building on Constitution Avenue that has come to mean what we will not say aloud. Its renov
The Quiet Theft
There is a theft that no one will prosecute, committed in broad daylight, announced in press releases written in the ane
Notes on a Borrowed Dollar
There is something obscene, and I mean obscene in the old ecclesiastical sense — a thing set apart from the sacred — abo
The Knock at the Temple Door
There is a building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., a white marble edifice overlooking the National Mall, an
The Price of Other People's Wars
There is a number on the gas pump, and there is a number in the Federal Reserve's minutes, and the distance between
The Price of Liberation
One year ago this month, we were told that liberation had arrived — not in the form of expanded freedom, not in the loos
The Ledger That Will Not Lie
There is a clock in Manhattan, on Sixth Avenue near Forty-Third Street, that does not tell time in any way most of us wo
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