Intercontinental ballistic missiles are massively expensive, environmentally hazardous, and dubiously successful as a deterrent—even Donald Trump recognizes the madness of modernizing strategic nuclear weapons.
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Shooting the Wounded
Is the order to kill survivors the exception to U.S. conduct, or the norm?
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‘War Department’ Mission: Saving Secretary Hegseth
‘The buck stops there, not here’ tradition of exonerating higher-ups at the expense of those further down the chain of command is well established when it comes to war crimes.
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Trump Calls Every American City Dweller to Train Our Troops for Dangerous Missions!
And tells our generals and admirals to refocus on ‘the war within.’
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Democrats Offer a (Partial) No Kings Budget
Provisions in the counteroffer to a continuing resolution would prevent illegal withholding of funds and partisan budget cuts.
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Hegseth May Be Required to Create Public Military Sex Offender Registry
Service members and their families would have to be notified about registered sex offenders on military bases.
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Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift
Trump’s ‘free’ gift from Qatar, a new Air Force One that he keeps after leaving office, is absorbing a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded upgrades.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Epstein Files
On our live show, David and Ken Klippenstein discuss the split between Donald Trump and the MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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Fear Government Control of Markets? It’s Trump, Not Mamdani, Who’s Your Problem.
Today on TAP: Trump’s Pentagon just became the majority shareholder in America’s only rare-earths mine. Where’s the Republican outrage?
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Republican Spending Bill Throws $156 Billion at Defense Contractors
Experts say its military spending isn’t grounded in strategy, would line the pockets of defense corporations, and would redirect the military to domestic deportations.
