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Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan and Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent.

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Politics

America’s state of malaise

We have become cynical as Biden starts to blend with Jimmy Carter

By Peter Van Buren

Politics

The DMV shows that COVID restrictions will never go away

Driver’s licenses used to be about driving; now they’re excuses to collect data and bully you

By Peter Van Buren

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International

The foreign policy amateur

So far Biden has alienated allies and layered on the bureaucracy — what next?

By Peter Van Buren

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Wokeness claims a museum

Peter Van Buren

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Biden’s vaccine order is about power, not health

Peter Van Buren

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Democrats’ only hope for 2024: jail Trump

Peter Van Buren

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The Clinton campaign’s plot to politically assassinate Trump

Peter Van Buren

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Connecting the dots between Russiagate and Hillary

Peter Van Buren

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The foreign policy amateur

Peter Van Buren

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