The Alt-Right Gets a Wedgie

Ah, Israel, the ultimate wedge issue for people on the right. Nothing can queer an alliance between mainstream conservatives, paleoconservatives, and white nationalists quicker ...

The View From the Sidelines

Can anyone make sense of the Middle East? Certainly those of us who perforce rely on television and newspaper reporting and analysis are in a poor position to do so, for all the ...

Bernie Madoff

How to Think Trump

NEW YORK"€”I don"€™t wanna say Donald Trump has contempt for established rules, but he's planning his third term. This is a boon for the media, though, because at least once ...

Back to Business

The Electoral College has spoken, and it's full steam ahead for President-to-be Trump. Many foreigners"€”and I daresay a number of Americans too"€”are puzzled by the Electoral ...

10 Real Resolutions for White Guys

MTV News just released a remarkably patronizing New Year's guide entitled "€œ2017 Resolutions for White Guys,"€ and boy, are us white guys angry. It's a video with white beta ...

Hacking Up Bloodlust

It's very sad to watch the Democrats these days. I mean, this is a party that has, in the past, shown itself to be exceptionally skilled at getting people fired up over going to ...

The Real Saboteurs of a Trump Foreign Policy

The never-Trumpers are never going to surrender the myth that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the ...

Aleppo, Syria

Lessons of Aleppo—for Trump

In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 1968, but to be a friend is fatal. The South Vietnamese would come to appreciate ...

The Pizzagates of Hell

In the past few weeks, I"€™ve had a good dozen people ask me about "€œPizzagate."€ "€œSo whaddya think, Dave? Is it a real scandal? Is there a "€˜there"€™ there?"€ ...

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Bordering on Success

Donald Trump's era of influence may turn out to be a flash in the pan like that of previous celebrity politicians Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But he may also be ...

Will Trump Defy McCain & Marco?

When word leaked that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, a holder of the Order of Friendship award in Putin’s Russia, was Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, John ...

“€œFake News”€ and Real Lives

Last week, suspected lesbian, part-time exotic jungle dancer, and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waddled like a postmenopausal penguin into DC and urged a ...

These Crazy Pills Taste Like Sour Grapes

It's difficult to know which part of me to trust these days: my intuition or my own lying eyes. The glut of "€œfake news"€ filling the web doesn"€™t make it any easier. ...

The Pissed-Off Can Piss Off

It had the same effect on them that a man sitting in a front-row seat and sucking a lemon has on the lead flutist performing a Mozart concert. “Them,” needless to say, are the ...

The Tower of David, Israel

Boughs of Folly

It's more than forty years since Barbara W. Tuchman published her best-selling book The March of Folly, with its subtitle, "€œFrom Troy to Vietnam."€ For her, folly was ...

Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?

Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to President-elect Donald Trump illuminated the Asian landscape. We can see clearly now ...


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