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China is Unlikely to Engage in a Nuclear Arms Race with the US

Gregory Kulacki Responsible Statecraft
President Trump in a 2017 bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
China’s leaders believe the only purpose of nuclear weapons is to allay the fear of a nuclear attack. But they are worried. The US has refused to rule out a nuclear first strike, and they’re dealing with a hostile and very impulsive US president.

Undercover Patriots

Danny Sjursen TomDispatch
The imperial power that we veterans fought for abroad is the same one some of us are now struggling against at home and the two couldn’t be more intimately linked. Our struggle is, at least in part, over who gets to define patriotism.

After the End of Native Mascots

Nick Martin The New Republic
Once the slurs and caricatures are gone, we're left to reconcile the erasure, tokenization, and colonization that exist beyond them

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