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Bad Branding: Another blobby bite at the anti-restraint apple

Unfortunately for establishment critics, the war in Ukraine is making their own case for US primacy less appetizing by the day.

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Why Bernie will win in 2020

While the coronavirus has accelerated Bernie-ism to take shape economically, it's his foreign policy ideas that are the future of the U.S. abroad.

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Mike Pompeo, you keep using that word 'restraint.' I do not think it means what you think it means

Mike Pompeo has hijacked the words 'realism' and 'restraint' to confuse his audience and make Trump’s foreign policy sound like it squares with the policies most Americans want.