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A number that stopped me, and numbers you should know

In researching a recent post on my Substack Commentary page, I came across a New Yorker essay that included this paragraph: “Brown University’s Costs of War project estimates that post-9/11 American military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan killed nearly a million people between 2001 and 2023, including more than four hundred thousand … Continue reading A number that stopped me, and numbers you should know