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The light of our democracy is blinking red
His hair, his business acumen, his golf scores, his stated weight, his claimed 2020 election “win” – everything about Donald Trump is fake except his…
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The worst of all possible worlds: Trump is using the L.A. riots to set his agenda for the mid-terms
Democrats had better start getting their shit together.
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Trump lights the fuse
They’ve lost the narrative on the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and this week they went and jumped the shark with the Trump-Musk bromance break-up, so what does…
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The empty shell of Trump’s and Hegseth’s fake military machismo
Three words I never heard even once growing up in an Army family or in my four years at West Point are “warrior culture” and “lethality.” As cadets, we…
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Trump is turning the U.S. into a private club, and we are not members
Federal agencies have been ordered by Donald Trump’s White House to find grants that the administration can withhold from the state of California.
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Unseemly or delicious? You decide.
I’ve been waiting for an occasion to use that word, “unseemly,” for months…even years.
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If this is the future of big-time journalism, count me out
I trust it will not come as much of a surprise if I tell you that the Grande Dame of Washington D.C.
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I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.
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