Donald Trump

Democrats unify amid 45’s zombie apocalypse There is a Twilight Zone quality to the stillness of our normally busy cities as most of us stay home due to the coronavirus [...]

Flag Day meditation: How does America go forward?

June 14, 2019 Actors who have played villains have been known to have difficulty reorienting themselves afterward. There is the tragic case of Heath Ledger after his performance as The [...]

At UN, USA Refuses to Condemn Countries That Kill Gays

The hits just keep on coming. The Washington Blade reports: The U.S. on Sept. 29 voted against a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution that condemns the death penalty for those found [...]

Charlottesville

Charles Bethea of The New Yorker writes “Witness to Terrorism in Charlottesville,” in which he quotes an eyewitness account by counter-protester Kristin Adolfson: I was ten feet away, so I [...]

7 questions as Trump unravels

Elizabeth Drew’s excellent piece on Trump in The New York Review of Books begins: If Donald Trump leaves office before four years are up, history will likely show the middle [...]

Trump’s Twitter secret revealed

Unlettered eloquence, as Dr. King said of Mother Pollard. (She said during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, “My feets is tired but my soul is rested.”)

Trump’s fearmongering presages power grab

London Mayor Sadiq Khan assured the public in a BBC interview: “Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. There’s no [...]

Macron blasts Putin propaganda, challenges him on gay rights and Syria

Anne Applebaum tweets regarding the joint press conference today by French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Palace of Versailles: Macron attacks RT and Sputnik as [...]

You haven’t got it

My message for overconfident liberals, from Ben Bradlee by way of Jason Robards, Jr. (who won an Oscar for this role): You haven’t got it. You can pop the champagne [...]

Robert Mueller named Special Counsel in Russiagate

Rebecca R. Ruiz and Mark Landler report in NYT: The Justice Department appointed Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director, as special counsel on Wednesday to oversee the investigation [...]

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