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• Learn How to Fight… Because the Terrorists Are April 1, 2026
  There is a comforting lie we tell ourselves in polite society, especially when it comes to violence: someone else will handle it. The police. Security. A good guy who knows what he’s doing. Someone other than us. Anyone but us. But that’s a lie. It’s a lie that gets people killed. When violence erupts, it […]
  Charles Faint
• Fayetteville and the War’s Last Days April 1, 2026
  By Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán For seventeen years I lived a ten-minute walk from the site of the historic Fayetteville Arsenal, destroyed more than 160 years ago on Monday, March 13, 1865. Nearly every week I would walk among what remains of its ruins. My interest in the Civil War goes back to my youth. In […]
  Special Guest
• Self-Care Is How We Stay in This April 1, 2026
  I had never heard anything about self-care until after my wife and I became full-time caregivers for our grandson, Asher. It initially felt like an alien concept to me, and it seemed a bit self-centered. It sounded like encouragement to take care of Number One above all things, and I had trouble with that. After […]
  Frank Pauc
• Europe Can’t Keep Calling Dad March 31, 2026
  Europe has spent years pretending that dependency is a sophisticated moral posture. It isn’t. It’s dependency. Put a silk scarf on it, seat it on a panel in Brussels, hand it a briefing paper about shared values and resilient democracies, and it is still a rich continent waiting for the Americans to come downstairs with […]
  Tammy Pondsmith
• Departure March 31, 2026
  Saying goodbye, Tears in our eyes, It was hard listening to everyone’s collective cries. Hoping I don’t die, And that the deployment would quickly pass by, we loaded onto buses to head to the armory one last time. I got issued a 9mm pistol. Fortified with weapons & ammunition, we headed to the beach to […]
  Lori Butierries