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Nostalgic for autocracy?
Somewhere in the past few days I saw a brief video of a MAGA woman saying, yes, she’d like Donald Trump to be an autocrat. She’d like that, autocracy. I think she meant as long as the autocrat was her … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Alibaba, Armando Ianucci, Chinese capitalism, Chinese COVID policy, Chinese Warren Buffett, Evan Osnos, Jack Ma, Mao, Party Leader Deng, Party Leader Xi, Politburo, Putin, The Death of Stalin, Uyghur, Xi Jinping
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What really happened in Afghanistan
Each morning when I turn on my computer, I go first to the Times and their opinion section. There I read maybe one essay and mark in my head the others I will want to read later. Today, amid the … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged Adam Nossiter, Afghanistan, Algeria, Battle of Algiers, Carter Malkasian, Charles de Gaulle, colonial wars, Damon Winters, Donald Trump, Gillo Pontecorvo, John Kennedy, Kabul, Mao, Mike Mansfield, New York Times, Patrick Chabal, pieds noirs, Taliban
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