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Clint Eastwood’s War
Critics are dismissing American Sniper as a jingoistic, post-9/11 spin on John Wayne. Here’s why they’re wrong
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After “Night March”
This is from a story I “wrote” in 1998, when I was sixteen. I say “wrote” because I interpolated a chapter from Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato, changing the names …
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The Secret Life of Max Stern
The Nazis stole his family’s paintings. Now, twenty years after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution
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The Pen and the Sword
Revisiting the culture wars over World War I
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The Groundskeeper
Tending graves at Bény-sur-Mer
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Chimes of Freedom
Were the ’60s really so special?
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Military Surplus
Canadian troops in Afghanistan pack up the war
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Continental Drift
Will Europe find its way?
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Afghanistan Undone
A journalist returns to the fragile country five years after she was kidnapped
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Armed Drones
In February 2002, the CIA sent an armed drone into Afghanistan’s Paktika province to target three men. The men killed turned out to be innocent villagers collecting scrap metal. One …
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