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Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum: 20 Points, 72 Hours, and a Peace Plan Written in Smoke
The spectacle began at the White House: President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had unveiled a “Gaza plan”—twenty bullet-points in a scripted ultimatum: Hamas must return all hostages within seventy-two hours. Once that’s done (or claimed done), Israel would reciprocate with the release of 250 Palestinians serving life terms, plus some 1,700 Gazans detained…
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Fear and Long Guns on Michigan Avenue
Chicago has always thrived on theater. Jazz clubs, improv stages, opera houses, the permanent farce of city politics—this is a town that knows spectacle. But nothing quite prepared the Magnificent Mile for the latest federal roadshow: dozens of Border Patrol agents in tactical helmets, body armor, and long guns parading up Michigan Avenue like they’d…
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World at War: While Trump Tweets, Armageddon Does Its Thing
They say history doesn’t repeat—but lately, it’s doing sequels. The globe is reawakening to a chaos so thick it’s becoming the new normal: Russia muscling NATO’s borders, fighters popping into sovereign airspaces, Beijing and Moscow cozied up in strategic waltz over Taiwan, Iran’s missile tattooing the skies, and Israel and Gaza locked in their endless…