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In early September 2016, Donald Trump announced his plan for a vast expansion of the U.S. military, including 90,000 new soldiers for the Army, nearly 75 new ships for the Navy and dozens of new fighter aircraft for the Air Force. Although the cost of this increase would be substantial — about $90 billion per year — it would be covered, the GOP presidential candidate said, by cutting wasteful government spending. But where, exactly, is the waste? In fiscal 2015, the federal government engaged in $1.1 trillion of discretionary...
On Feb. 10, 2016, Peace Action — the largest peace organization in the United States — announced its endorsement of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination for President. Peace Action is the descendant of two other mass U.S. peace organizations: the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (the Freeze). SANE was founded in 1957 with the goal of ending nuclear weapons testing. Soon, though, it broadened its agenda to include opposing the Vietnam War and other ove...
