
Tag: trump

It’s amazing that this isn’t getting more media attention, but this is where we are in 2022. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says in his new book that then-President Donald Trump raise
Paul’s post about David Remnick’s interview of Stephen Kotkin reminds me of another interview that Kotkin recorded in February. In that earlier interview, Kotkin draws an analogy between P

Christ, what an asshole. President Donald Trump tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane. He ripped paper into quarters with two big, clean strokes — o
Worth noting that last night, our ex-president not only promised to pardon his fascist coup supporters, but also basically promised a race war by calling the Black prosecutors investigating his many c

One of the central activities of academic blogs – or what’s left of them these days – is for people to promote their books and articles. When I did a “soft relaunch” of the Duck
As much as I prefer not to link to Politico, I think this piece on how Trump’s anti-Asian racism may have created significant shifts in the Asian-American community that may build toward a sort

This Bloomberg story on Trump in Florida is really just amazing. A few choice bits: Tossed from the White House, banished from Facebook and Twitter, Trump has never seemed more distant from public con
Glad I was sitting when I read this one! Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump’s own protective detail used while guarding him a
- If the FBI can investigate a former president for stealing and possibly selling nuclear secrets, they can do it to anyone
- Russia Update
- Drama in the Bluegrass!
- Getting the message
- Know when to walk away, and know when to run
- Lamont Dozier
- The post-Hobbs political landscape
- Probably not someone who has been listening to Republicans shriek TREASON! for the past few days
- “Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.”
- Biden meets with historians to discuss perils to democracy