Wednesday, April 08, 2026
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I have to be honest about something. I don’t understand anything about this war with Iran. I was shocked when it started, I don’t understand the reasons we’re in it, and now I can’t tell why—or even if—it’s stopped. The communication from the Trump administration since the conflict began has been either 1) missing, 2) murky, or 3) unhinged. (“Open the Fuckin’ Strait you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”) Now we’re hearing from Pete Hegseth that the ceasefire announced last night is “overwhelming victory on the battlefield. A capital V.” Um, sure. This is where I turn to Charles P. Pierce to do some interpretation. You can read his take below.
—Kevin Dupzyk, features director
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And it’s definitely not the “ninth war” that President Art O’Deal has “stopped.”
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The late Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon often is credited with devising the formula for ending U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia: that we should declare victory and get out. There’s no credible evidence that Morse actually wrote or said any such thing. But it certainly is an apt summation of Morse’s brave opposition to that bloody fiasco. And now, what with a two-week ceasefire in which fire has not ceased, it maintains a certain salience.
The administration’s reaction to this is as predictable as a kickback. This will become the “ninth war” that President Art O’Deal has “stopped.” Iran walks away with more than it had in the previous agreement it struck with the Obama administration. Israel is still firing missiles into Iran, to say nothing of laying waste to half of Lebanon. Iran maintains control of the Strait of Hormuz. Indeed, the deal turns the strait into an Iranian tollbooth. I think we’re lucky that Iran doesn’t now own half of Montana. On the other hand, Pete Hegseth thinks the whole thing is/was a masterstroke.
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“It’s hard out there.” Bill Lawrence is talking about the TV business, but it applies nowadays to pretty much … everything. Lawrence is one of the main creative forces behind a slate of mega-popular TV shows that are neither “feel-good” nor “feel-bad” watches but derive their power simply from feeling itself. Feeling everything.
In Shrinking, currently heading toward its third-season finale on Apple TV, Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, and Harrison Ford are therapists trying to help people while struggling with their own troubles. Rooster, new on HBO, stars Steve Carell as a middle-aged writer trying to restart his life while teaching at a college. ABC’s Scrubs revival brought back Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, and Judy Reyes as the seasoned veterans at Sacred Heart. Then there’s Ted Lasso, the Jason Sudeikis coaching comedy that became an emotional lifeline during the pandemic years.
“I’m a dinosaur still from network television, but I think 90 percent of the streaming pitches I have nowadays, I never would’ve been able to sell ’em back then,” Lawrence says. “ ‘Hey, it’s a half-hour comedy about a dude whose wife died and it’s about grief and forgiveness and he’s abusing substances and he is a shitty father—and it’s a comedy!’ I couldn’t have sold that back in the network days.”
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