Hooper's War – Peter Van Buren
A Novel of WWII Japan
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The Secret Weapon for the Midterms
Conservative voters might need to start worrying, just a bit, ahead of the 2026 midterms. A small non-partisan organization may have figured out the key to mostly Democratic failure among rural, post-industrial, and non-college educated voters (shorthand here, the Midwest) and…
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Is China Winning Because the State Department Doesn’t Have Enough Ambassadors?
Throughout my more than two decades at the State Department as a diplomat my well-meaning mother spent years asking what I’d have to do to make ambassador. The answer was simple: dad needed to die young, and mom should donate the entire inheritance to the winner of the next…
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The Culture Wars Come for the Midterms in Ohio
People in Meigs County, Ohio do not like to talk to strangers, though they are polite and will, which is why most election polling, if it reaches this far out toward the end of the wire, is inaccurate. You need to be with someone whom they already trust, in my case a college…
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Taiwan and Settled Diplomacy
Following the recent Trump-Xi summit there was something of an awkward silence over Taiwan. The island was conspicuous mainly by its absence from the summit. It did not need to be talked about, because Taiwan is what a lawyer might call settled diplomacy. The genius of the…
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“Public Charge” and Trump’s Immigration Reform
While ICE raids dominate headlines, another important reform has received far less attention: the Trump administration restoring the teeth to the public charge doctrine that has long been part of American immigration law. Aggressive street enforcement receives the noise and the…
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Will AI Kill Us All? Maybe
I’ve lived my life under the constant threat of human extinction. So I’m a little skeptical about how dangerous AI is to us. But that is changing. As a child the threat was sudden, complete thermonuclear war with the Soviets. At my elementary school we practiced hiding under our…
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Unhappy in the World’s Happiest Country
I was sitting in a coffee shop in Copenhagen, Denmark ruining my vacation. For about the hundredth time I found myself calculating how much the trip was costing, and whether, as a retiree, I had saved enough not to outlive my money. At the end of life I was likely to face tens…
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What I Miss the Most About Pre-9/11 America
My condo surveils the hallways. The city’s facial-recognition cameras are on every corner, tied to license-plate readers, tied to our digital lives. Vast databases assure us no detail—no one—is too small to monitor. I learn to follow orders at the airport. After becoming an Iraq…
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A Real Problem with Healthcare is Access, Not Just Insurance
Everyone talks about the health insurance crisis in America, but rarely do we talk about the other crisis: people with decent insurance coverage who simply cannot access healthcare. There’s more to this than single payer versus private coverage. Health insurance is meaningless…
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New Values-Based Recruiting for State Department
Andrew Crapuchettes is a man with a mission. He wants to bring patriotic values to government employment recruiting, and, he wants to personally help implement Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s mandate to reform the Department of State to better represent those values abroad long…