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Earlier last week, China celebrated its "Victory Day" parade - marking 80 years since it defeated Japan at the end of World War Two - which was attended by leaders such as North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The push to militarize local law enforcement operations has been an ongoing fixation for the president, who on Saturday used war imagery and a reference to the movie “Apocalypse Now” to suggest that the newly rebranded Department of War could descend upon the Democrat-run city.

Over the last few months, the battle over the $30 minimum wage has triggered an all-out ballot measure war between organized labor and business groups.

I want to stick with this idea of amendments as a release valve for violence—the idea that the American experiment is itself born of violence, and the amendment process is in response to the trauma of violence, peaking, as you say, after the Civil War.

They had to write them because there was a war—their colonial charters had gone up in smoke, the provincial assemblies were appointed by the royal governors, and the royal governors had fled the war; there was no government.