Vietnamese Friends and Other Patriots: Trump doesn’t Deserve You
Because of my multiple tours in Vietnam as a CIA officer, and having authored two books about the fall of…
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Why The Looting and Vandalism? See Trump’s Example
It is a little rich for the nation’s plunderer-in-chief to take to his bully pulpit to condemn the ongoing demonstrations…
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Where is The Lone Ranger In This Crisis Just When We need Him — or Her?
The “strong man” theory of history has fallen out of favor with modern statistics-obsessed scholars. But I sincerely believe that…
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The Pandemic Versus Potty Imperatives
In a teleconference the other day I joined a bunch of fellow anti-Trumpers in discussing ways to push back against…
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Kent State: Morality In Memoriam
The 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre has come and gone. But May 4, 1970, is forever memorialized in…
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Beware of Pushing Students Too Hard In Covid-19’s Pressure Cooker
Governor Gavin Newsom has just announced he may trim summer break for millions of K-12 students across California. His working…
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Frolicking with the Enemy in Plague Time: A Vent
To those of you who flung off social distancing, demonstrated as an armed mob for a “return to normalcy,” or…
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Combating Trump’s Pandemic of Lies With a Lesson from Vietnam
In a recent Washington Post column Dana Milbank draws provocative parallels between the official lying that cloaked our failures in…
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Survival for the Highest Bidder: Kushner’s Cure for Covid-19
An ugly little sidebar to President Trump’s coronavirus press conference last Thursday highlighted the abject cruelty at the heart of…
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Past as Prologue: Vietnam Warned Us About Trump
What do the lessons of Vietnam tell us about the wisdom of re-electing Donald Trump, this misanthrope president, nearly fifty…