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Powell’s 14th rule

the skeptical column of the ledger

the power of dynamics

updates and pleas

violence redux

knowledge, fear, and hope

memory on 4 June

Ukraine versus Russia

the hypocrisy of illegitimacies

Those buckos for colleges

Memorial Day 2025

medicine doesn’t include guarantees

Further magical thinking

magical thinking

18 May 1980, 0832

this is not a drill, folks

Whither tariffs?

V-E Day amid uncertainty

talking them down?

Mexico, so far

time and memories

half a century

representation and consequences

“magic happens here” thinking

Guilt and approval by association

Argentina’s Pope

time and diplomacy

CORRECTION on 16 April 2025 column

personalism in politix

Public support and tariffs

tariffs and impeachment

assembling for a purpose

questions, questions, questions

programming note for 11 April 2025

Those in need

Personal superpower

Spies, will and Taiwan

contempt

geography matters

Capital Chatter matters

assumptions about the configuration

Unwavering friends?

equanimity under stress

can you spare some time and involvement?

personal freedoms and health

those unintended things

Eight years’ effects

systemic time bomb

integrity in the face of revolution

here, there, and everywhere

Rule by law versus Rule OF law

gentle civics reminder

a new day dawned

ruby red or going sapphire?

does unipolar=omnipotent?

why a civil service cadre?

SEEKING YOUR FEEDBACK

egg prices, HHS, and science

memory v technology?

“Fortress” China

actions and consequences

Can counseling save 80 year marriage?

defeated but unbowed

frozen in time

Where do we compare?

losing an instrument

response to Canada post

United States of Canada

Update

At the table

Technical glitch

Too dangerous a vanity project?

Slow, sustained building

A case for one type of discrimination

misunderstandings

what goes around comes around

a despicable choice

black holes matter

Saving artifacts

society

modeling in the classroom

Thais that bind

further on State

Intentions v actions

commitments

whither actions and consequences?

Immutable conflicts

Politics v partisanship, part 2

Avant garde no more

Politics versus partisanship

APOLOGY for all

Humans, mere mortals

PSA: think about options now

contrarian on the big game

that big army

tenacity essential

who’s going to help?

big countries and norms

that most fickle of masters and mistresses

certifying the electoral votes

Operator error

the chimeras

warning v. freedom

civil war, crime, and ungoverned spaces

China is BIG

reconciliation despite bitterness