The ‘jail Trump’ mania reaches its sad end
The latest Letitia James lawsuit is so much ado about nothing
Peter Van Buren
Peter Van Buren is the author of ‘We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People’, ‘Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan’ and ‘Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent’.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Exhausted by America’s culture of fear
I’m not sure I should worry about our democracy so much as our sanity
Thursday
Vanity plates and the fight for free speech
The First Amendment sends one down some odd paths
Sunday
Why is a ‘special master’ reviewing Trump’s documents?
He’s hoping executive privilege can apply to a former president. But can it?
Wednesday
The missing Biden foreign policy
There’s no plan, no careful set of chess moves, just an empty void
Monday
Chinese tyranny? American surveillance is scary too
The technology of war has come home
Wednesday
Merrick Garland is between a rock and a hard place
He has every reason not to indict Trump, starting with the double standard over Hillary
Friday
The FBI search warrant is no slam dunk against Trump
Though it does raise a question: was the FBI sent after a presidential candidate?
Thursday
Why does America have so many secrets?
Government overclassification, not Trump’s Mar-a-Lago docs, is the real issue here
Monday
The Clintons actually broke the laws Trump is accused of breaking
The DoJ must explain why they were never charged or prosecuted
Thursday
How much, really, changes post-Roe?
Pay no heed to the crazy all-or-nothing screeds and science fiction fears
Tuesday
The five stages of Mar-a-Lago grief
He’s gotta be guilty of something, right?
Saturday
What is a classified document, anyway?
The classification system for national security documents has been often misused
Thursday
Merrick Garland is the Mar-a-Lago mystery man
Dems know they now have about twelve weeks left to indict Trump or someone near him
Friday
The myth that Hiroshima was necessary
The ‘we had no choice’ excuse has had twenty-first century consequences
Wednesday
Is Biden giving Brittney Griner special treatment?
There are hundreds of other Americans who could be called ‘wrongfully detained’
Thursday
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is about politics not diplomacy
Joe Biden is right to be worried
Tuesday
Is there hope for a compromise on abortion?
We don’t like to negotiate in the United States
Thursday
Can American idiots renounce their US citizenship?
Green Day’s lead singer wants to after Dobbs
Thursday
Democrats are stuck with Biden
Who can they tap now that they’ve turned on Joe? Kamala? Please
