Fred Kaplan
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Slate's War Stories columnist; jazz critic; author of A Capital Calamity (a novel), The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, The Wizards of Armageddon
Joined July 2009
A highly classified leaked phone-call transcript sheds new light on Trump/witkoff's cozy ties with the Kremlin--and the true nature of the discredited 28-point "peace" plan.
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It confirms that the 28-point Ukraine peace plan was largely a Kremlin product.
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I talk on Slate’s WhatNext podcast about Trump’s 3-ring circus of a “peace” plan for Russia-Ukraine.
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High off a ceasefire in Gaza, the Trump administration goes for two.
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Trump's foreign policy is now a 3-ring circus, and not the fun kind.
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When will the president learn he can’t vibe his way through diplomacy?
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The closer you look at Trump's 28-point "peace" plan, the worse it looks for Ukraine.
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This plan is basically an early Christmas gift for Putin.
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The deeper significance of Trump's "Things happen" remark about Khashoggi's murder.
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He may have cleared the high bar of uttering the most appalling remark of his presidency on Tuesday.
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Now online: my liner notes for the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray disc of Howard Hughes' 1930 war film, "Hell's Angels."
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A pre-Code aviation epic that makes pioneering use of the era’s innovations in cinematic color and sound, Howard Hughes’s directorial debut was Hollywood’s first modern portrait of World War I.
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Pete Hegseth declares war on the military-industrial copmlex. Guess who's likely to win.
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Trump's secretary of defense takes on the military industrial complex. (Guess who's likely to win?)
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My @Slate obit on the rise and fall of Dick Cheney.
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He died an irrelevant, all-but-forgotten figure—and mostly had himself to blame.
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I'm very proud and pleased to have written the liner notes for the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray/4K disc of Howard Hughes' 1930 war film, "Hell's Angels."
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A high-flying feat of adventure filmmaking and a testament to the audacious, spare-no-expense vision of Howard Hughes, this landmark aviation epic remains exhilarating both for its daredevil aerial...
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The bad news for the Gaza ceasefire is it requires Trump's attention to sustain it.
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He still doesn't realize that signing a peace deal is the easiest part of peace.
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I’m now with the Lyceum Agency. To book me for a speaking gig, contact Nancy@lyceumagency.com .
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Are Trump's remarks on nuclear testing a threat, nonsense, or both?
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I've been writing about nukes for >40 years. Here's what I think about the movie "A House of Dynamite." (Short version: it's very realistic.)
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A House of Dynamite is terrifying. It’s also shockingly realistic.
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Has Trump finally learned his lesson about Putin's real intentions?
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Has he learned his lesson this time?
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What Trump is really doing in the Caribbean.
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There are way too many unanswered questions.
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Why Biden couldn't get the Gaza peace deal that Trump got--though, then again, Trump didn't exactly get a peace deal either.
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The question is a bit premature.
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How Trump engineered the ceasefire, and why he probably can't drive the peace train much farther. https://t.co/kRYORTSknp\
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Trump made Netanyahu phone the Qatari emir to apologize for attacking his country and promising never to do it again.
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The inescapable signs of Trump's emerging police state.
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It’s the clearest statement of the president’s intentions that we’ve seen so far.
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Trump's speech to 500 generals & admirals was unhinged, rambling, repellent, but it also laid out a frightening new mission for the US military--to attack "the enemy from within" in our cities.
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Trump's not-quite-peace plan and very evasive press conference.
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Israel essentially just got the green light to extend the war.
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