Borrowed War, Busted Democracy
Fans of the Trump-Netanyahu blitzkrieg against Iran are working hard to extract a strategic triumph from what increasingly looks like…
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Iran: The Logical Coda to Vietnam
Every recent president who has launched a war of choice while sidestepping or subverting Congress’s constitutional authority to declare war…
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Looking for Murrow in MAGAland
“Good night, and Good Luck” to journalism as it once purported to be. Pray for anyone trying to teach the…
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License it and forget it: the Trump “brand” as foreign policy
Donald Trump’s original boast —that he was a relentlessly successful real-estate tycoon who kept racking up wins in his formative…
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Against the Gaslight
Trump’s darkness visible. There is an historically grounded scene in the Oscar-nominated Nuremberg that resonates with terrifying clarity in this moment. Hermann…
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Venezuela and the Long Drift Toward Executive Terror
Let’s finally call out Trump policies for what they are. I have seen what unbridled executive power can do when it is…
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Epstein, Israel, and the Forbidden Intelligence Question
James Bond caper or Lolita Book 2 – how do we describe our greatest national obsession? One reason the Jeffrey…
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Missed Signals, Misplaced Hope
A Facebook subscriber, who viewed the latest excerpt (Part 6) from Susan Hunter’s documentary featuring Vietnam eyewitnesses, recently sent me…
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In Defense of Nick Ut — and the Integrity of Witness
Full disclosure: Nick Ut is an old friend from my Vietnam days, and I have long believed he took one of the…
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The Missing Tyrant: Watching “One Battle After Another” as the Real-World Burns
Dec 09, 2025 Oscar watchers are buzzing like green-bottle flies around a clump of satirical mischief called “One Battle After…