Madman Theory: Trump v. Nixon
When Donald Trump threatened several days ago to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” and obliterate Persian culture, I…
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Bad News Brownout in the Gulf
Ordinarily I use this space to comment on political issues. But this time I want to highlight an under-reported story about the…
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A Bat-Crazy Fireside Chat
If a scoutmaster briefed parents on a camping trip the way President Trump addressed the nation last night on the…
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Whose “Excursion” Is It?
It should not be this hard to figure out what Donald Trump intends to do in the Iran war, even if he…
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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…