No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to not read way too many of the stories about Trump’s Folly, the US and Israel attack on Iran. I fool myself, as I read, thinking I can figure out what the frick they think they are doing, and how this will turn out. Any silver lining in these dark clouds of…

There can’t be much doubt that the New York Times is not President Trump’s favorite newspaper. Weeks ago, they included in the Sunday paper a special section that sought to survey the changes that Trump had wrought in his first year. Stripping out any opinion, and looking at “just the fact, ma…

In facing off against repression and standing firm against growing autocracy in one place or another, there’s a weird and powerful de facto alliance taking shape that’s worth learning more about: Boomers and Gen Z are at the frontlines.With the caveat that any survey that is more self-selected than…

There is an undeclared civil war in America now. Trump and his administration have weaponized and mobilized the federal government in one initiative after another against people in the United States. Seeing himself as having unlimited powers and enabling his administration to ignore the law and…