Trump Trapped by Prisoners of a War That Isn’t
Two alleged Narcos captured at sea expose DHT’s latest excess and its danger to us all. When two men were…
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Bolton Blues: Trump’s Revenge Meets a Supreme Court Irony
Oct 18, 2025 John Bolton is no favorite of mine. But Donald Trump’s decision to dump espionage charges on his…
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Trump’s Ceasefire and Debt to Biden
As of October 2025, the guns have fallen silent, at least for now. Twenty Israeli hostages seized in Hamas’s October…
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Is King Chaos Self-Destructing – Again?
Trump is shooting from the hip so often that the ricochets threaten to ping him politically. I have a friend,…
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Prisoners of Fire – Surviving California’s Inferno and the Long, Hard Recovery
Author’s Note: Imagine trying to overcome unprecedented wildfires in which entire California communities are destroyed even as the Trump administration…
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CIA Okays Release of the “Last” Vietnam Spy Story
Author’s Note: Last spring, just before the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, I submitted a draft article, “The…
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Trump’s “Joe McCarthy” Act — And How to Fight Back
When I was a child in the Deep South, Joseph McCarthy’s voice floated through the dining room like smoke that…
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More Conspiracy Mongering About the JFK Assassination — As If We Need It
A thumbs-up to Michael Isikoff and Gus Russo for their recent SpyTalk piece, “More CIA-JFK Assassination Conspiracy Nonsense.” They rightly fault The Washington…