Rick Shenkman is the editor and founder of the History News Network and the author most recently of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Basic Books, January 2016).
        
              
  
      
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        Ted Cruz’s Collateral Damage: Why So Few Americans Care About Dead Civilians
      
                    For the most part, Americans don’t think or care much about the real-world consequences of unleashing American air power.
                          
                      Rick Shenkman