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…
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Epstein, Maxwell, and the Intelligence Question We’re Not Asking
As the public continues to demand disclosure of a so-called “Epstein client list,” we may be asking the wrong question….
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LA’s Firestorms: Political Lessons for Our Survival
In early March, three months after wildfires tore through multiple Los Angeles-area communities, PBS aired a grim retrospective: Weathered: Inside…
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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…