…a criminal justice matter rather than some matter of existential war of civilizations. But calling these matters ‘crimes’ rather than ‘war’ is important. In WWII we declared war on Japan…

…made them feel safer. When the Iraq war started, the effects of war weariness kicked in fairly quickly and people wanted fewer causalities and peace. When the Great Recession began,…

…waste of war and war production made the retail waste of peacetime profit-seeking superfluous. As Stephen Leacock had stipulated four years earlier, “The economics of war, therefore, has thrown its lurid light…

…I had earlier called a Saint of WAR and who was then killed in war, in a Lightning. I rejoin all those of whom I had said that under the…

…members of the progressive caucus is a big mistake, assuming the progressives want to save lives and prevent a genocidal Russian takeover of Ukraine.  Putin is losing his war and…

…war years and still faced years of paying off the wartime bonds. They began to call for repaying war bonds not in gold but in depreciated currency, insisting that taxpayers…

…caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced writer and reformer Julia Ward Howe that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such…

…upcoming request for more money to fight the war. Catie Edmondson of the New York Times reported that Pentagon officials told lawmakers yesterday the first six days of the war had cost…

…Dubois’ message. “It’s day 59 of Trump’s war with Iran,” she wrote. “Gas prices are 40% higher since the war began.” Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) similarly pinned the blame on Trump…

…Iraq War in the post 9/11 Bush Administration making it frankly absurd to claim that their motivations for starting that war were in any sense FORMED by the events of…