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The public on Tuesday will get its first look at Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in action. And if he follows his closed-door testimony, he will knock his commander in chief while retelling his version of potentially damning conversations with a Trump ambassador. “I’m the director for Ukraine,” Col. Vindman told the joint House impeachment panel on Oct. 29. “I’m responsible for Ukraine. I’m the most knowledgeable. I’m the authority for Ukraine for the National Security Council and the White House.” “I’m certainly not the president of the United States,” he said at another point, when asked by a Republican...

You could hardly find a more problematic time for pacifists who do not want their taxes spent on the military. But the recent wave of patriotic fervor has only reinvigorated the efforts of one tiny, determined group. "On the Friday after Sept. 11, I was told I should lay low for a while," said Marian Franz, executive director of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund. "Now I have been told this is the time. As the war grows, so does the antiwar movement." For more than three decades, the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund has petitioned...