In the Dead of Winter, the Green Shoots of Spring Beckon As 2019 fades out and 2020 beckons, it’s tempting to focus on the doom-and-gloom.
Through the Looking Glass. There is, these days, an ever more hallucinatory quality to politics. The most powerful man on earth flies to London to…...
An Emperor and his Enablers. After two weeks of public impeachment hearings, a few things seem remarkably clear. The first is that Trump clearly subscribes
Flap and doodle. Balder and Dash. Every so often, when I need to remind myself that there have been other brutally corrupt, know-nothing moments in…...
When We Finally Kick the Trump Habit. What, I wonder, will our Trump-hangover feel like? For, one day, whether at the back-end of the impeachment
Notes From DC’s Underground In Dostoyevsky’s masterful short novel Notes from Underground, a misanthropic young man, disappointed in life and bitter at his peers, announces
Impeachment Chronicles 3 This is the week that, generations from now, historians will cite as the pivot point; the moment when everything became blindingly clear…...
Impeachment Chronicles 2 “When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; and when Rome falls – the world.” So wrote Lord Byron, describing the notion of…...
