• No, Trump is not a Neocon

    No, Trump is not a Neocon

    With U.S. missiles flying in Syria, the “mother of all bombs” exploding in Afghanistan and an aircraft carrier strike group heading toward North Korea, has there been a…

  • The Russian stoog

    The Russian stoog

    The circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. government at the highest levels. How else to explain a newly elected president looking the…

  • The crisis of Trumpism

    The crisis of Trumpism

    Trumpism is in crisis. This isn’t a function of poll numbers, or any melodrama of the past months, but something more fundamental: No officeholder in Washington seems to understand…

  • The mother of all games

    The mother of all games

    Only a few people know what a “GBU-43/B” is. A bunch more will figure it out if we use the official designation: “Massive Ordnance Air Blast,” or “MOAB.”…

  • Awful questions, no answers

    Awful questions, no answers

    We don’t know if President Donald Trump was purely motivated to fire cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield. Was he genuinely horrified by the nerve-gas attack on a rebel-held…

  • L Fools’ day

    L Fools’ day

    April Fools’ Day has come and gone, but on the first of the month, I kept marveling at how — starting even before he ran, continuing through his campaign and certainly since…