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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 26, 2018
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The Hero’s Wife proves that the violence doesn’t end when the fighting stops
Aline Lathrop's drama explores different sides of a timeless story.
- Arts & Culture, Fiction Apr 6, 2017
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Three selections from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
Three short stories from Syrian writer Osama Alomar's book The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
- Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2015
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Have drones taken all the ecstasy out of warfare?
On drones and chivalry
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jul 30, 2014
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RE|Dance charts a journey that never gets off the ground
The Long and Forgotten Winter is ambitious but ultimately static.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 22, 2013
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Our ignorance of our enemies might not be bliss, but it's close enough
Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2012
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The Red Dawn remake looks like a strong argument for ending the war in Afghanistan
Am I the only one who thinks you could switch a few nationalities in the new Red Dawn and have a documentary of America's invasion of Afghanistan?
- Arts & Culture, Art Critic's Choice May 22, 2012
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Tiffany Funk's proliferation treatise
"Packing Heat" exposes the military tech we all live with
- Columns & Opinion, On Media May 16, 2012
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NATO uncovered
A big international story in a city whose press no longer thinks globally
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 27, 2012
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Can the U.S. economy afford peace?
Isn't war a pretty good stimulus plan?
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Oct 6, 2011
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Rebecca Wolfram's hell on earth
'The Invisible Worm,' a collection of provocative paintings on view at the Thompson Center
- Arts & Culture, Art Sidebar Sep 29, 2011
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"War Stories"
Mary King's at Woman Made Gallery
- News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Sep 8, 2011
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2005
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2011
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How do you like your war news?
Good war news, bad war news
- Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2011
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Dramatic and jarring "Conflict Zone" seeks gallery space in other cities
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2011
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It Never Gets Old...
- News & Politics, Media Sep 9, 2010
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Our Warriors
The terminology we use to describe our soldiers reveals the gap between us.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2010
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Soldier
Sometimes a cabdriver will hear much more than he ever wanted to.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2008
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And around we go ...
What a sight -- death spirals as far as the eye can see!
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2007
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Spoils of war
If you could triple your money ten times over, would you do it? What if it involved killing a few hundred thousand people?
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 24, 2007
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Wanted: a really commercial foreign policy
The war on terror is just making more terrorists. Sam Smith thinks maybe the US should act more like a corporation and less like an army.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2007
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The driver is crazy
Declare war, declare victory, lose, declare another war: a pathetic and suicidal excuse for a foreign policy.
- Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2007
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After Memorial Day
A moving essay on forgetting about war.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2007
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What is Bush thinking?
Is there any strategic reason for funding a war through one supplemental appropriation after another?
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2007
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Put the dominos away
Those who can't learn from history are doomed to repeat the domino theory.