How Dick Cheney made Donald Trump
Instead of vilifying Cheney, MAGA-world should offer him a bouquet of appreciation
George w. bush
Tuesday
Friday
The Bush shoe-thrower is jacked now
Plus: Stephen Miller poster for your bedroom wall
Tuesday
How Trump can win the Nobel Peace Prize
The history of the prize, like history itself, is messy
Monday
Donald’s divine inspiration
‘I want to thank everybody and, in particular, God’
Thursday
The weird and wonderful presidential interactions at the Carter funeral
Make new friends, while keeping old…
Wednesday
Thune rises to the top
The South Dakotan is a longtime member of the Republican establishment
Monday
‘Democracy’ in New York State
Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
Monday
North Carolinians forced to bury dead in their yards
Sources paint a picture of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene
Friday
Biden fails his Hurricane Katrina moment
Plus: Project 2025 is officially dead to Trump campaign
Thursday
A superbly written and insightful account of the contemporary American military
General McKenzie’s fine memoir is a rich and powerful testament to the qualities that our best military commanders bring to their service to the nation
Thursday
Joe Biden’s non-defense policy
There is no consistent guidance regarding American involvement in foreign conflict
Tuesday
Why do neoliberals get let off the Iraq War hook?
There are prominent liberal hawks who have somehow escaped condemnation for helping promote the invasion
Wednesday
The next Senate GOP leader won’t be super-rich. That’s a good thing
Johns Cornyn and Thune represent not just a generational shift, but a shift in the nature of the leadership
Thursday
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
Tuesday
Israel’s imperial problem is ours, too
The country is facing today a dilemma that the West will face tomorrow
Monday
The never-ending War on Terror
US forces are operating in more countries today than they did the months and years after 9/11
Monday
John Bolton’s clueless presidential dreams
He’s the war hawk par excellence and his record is catastrophic
Tuesday
Buried treasures of the Broadmoor
Spencer Penrose’s Colorado paradise makes the case for booze
Saturday
Growing up with 9/11
Will America ever be able to restore a sense of normalcy?
Thursday
2022 Biden contradicts 2001 Biden over action in Taiwan
‘Words matter,’ but only if you can remember them
