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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Damning Bibi Dangerously: When does criticism of his Gaza policies become antisemitism?
Author’s Note: This article was completed just before the outbreak of the Israel–Iran-US conflagration. How the crisis unfolds will inevitably…
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Lie, Lies and More Lies: Trump Turns Un-Truth into Policy
So many “facts” behind the administration’s hammer blows to our democratic norms and judicial system are just plain fiction. When…
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Who’s In Charge Here — the Oligarch or the Jester?
Author’s short take. Re: “Musk’s budget veto power could extend to auto and space regulations” – Axios, December 19, 2024….
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What Trump Sees in Kash Patel: Avid loyalty
Author’s short take Re: “What Trump sees in Kash Patel: Avid loyalty and a kindred spirit” – David Ignatius, The…