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In poring over the Trump-Woodward tapes and parsing through all the damning material contained therein, the story of Donald Trump’s fascination with Kim Jong-Un, and how Kim played him like a fiddle, laughing all the way, stands out. As Johnathan Last at The Bulwark puts it, “After the Woodward tapes, anyone still deluding themselves about […]

Cynthia Harvey woke up one morning to find on her social media feed a 45-second video sent to her by a friend who knew that she would find it intriguing.  Cynthia is the artistic director of...

A massive crowd of hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Minsk on Sunday, demanding President Alexander Lukashenko’s resignation and saying "Fuck You!" to the Belarusian strongman’s warning that “stringent measures” would be employed...

First, a little background. The Republic of Belarus is in Europe, between Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine. It had a presidential election on August 9. The “president” of Belarus for the last 26 years...

Citizens of Portland and other US cities can look to the Russian city of Kazan for clues of how President Trump could use federal paramilitaries to intimidate political opponents and bolster corruption by Trump...

Depending on the country and on the sect, devout Buddhist monks have different guidelines when it comes to material objects. In Mongolia, I have witnessed many monks drive high-end Lexus’s. In other countries, some get married and...

Evidently, when you consider yourself not only to be above the law, but to BE the law, paying taxes is beneath you. Derek Chauvin and Kellie Chauvin, of Oakdale, were each charged by summons in...

Baseball is back — with a bang, with dignity, with a national hero throwing the ceremonial pitch, with both teams taking a knee and a thumb straight in the eye of the most undeserving one. OK,...

According to the Trump Twitter archive, Trump hasn’t posted about Rep. John Lewis since January 2017, when he felt compelled to whine about Lewis’ decision to skip Trump’s inauguration. Since Lewis’ passing yesterday, Trump has yet to...

Here’s some uplifting news!  Capt. Thomas Moore, a 100-year-old British WWII vet, set a goal of doing 100 laps in his garden (yard, in America) to raise 1000 British Pounds for the UK’s National...