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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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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Double-Tapping Morality and the Constitution
Dec 05, 2025 War by its very nature is an act of barbarity, regardless of how righteous the purpose. Whether…
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Even a Middling Economy Could Tank Trump
You’ve probably experienced it before: you’re watching some politician drone on about the economy, and you shrug because your own…
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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…