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Trump. Hegseth, et al., like Peter Pan, will never grow up. Pity them.
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The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump
The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump. Hegseth, et al., like Peter Pan, will never grow up. Pity them.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Trump administration does not understand that Russia cares not about economics, only empire, and is dedicated to the complete subjugation of Ukraine. Believing that they think as we do is a fool's game.
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
The West Doesn’t Understand Russia
In 1939 Winston Churchill described Russia as a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” His famous dictum reflected the West’s perpetual misunderstanding of what driv
www.realcleardefense.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Trump administration does not understand that Russia cares not about economics, only empire, and is dedicated to the complete subjugation of Ukraine. Believing that they think as we do is a fool's game.
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...
The label 'competitive authoritarianism' might be accurate for the US. But the factors favoring democracy remain strong. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Price of American Authoritarianism
What can reverse democratic decline?
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The label 'competitive authoritarianism' might be accurate for the US. But the factors favoring democracy remain strong. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Is there corruption in Ukraine? Of course. But how do we know? Ukrainians, determined to root it out, are making it transparent. In contrast, Russia is determined to make it opaque and the Trump administration has made it translucent. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Ukrainians want honest government. Do we?
Ukraine's fight against corruption is impossible to imagine right now in America or Russia
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December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Is there corruption in Ukraine? Of course. But how do we know? Ukrainians, determined to root it out, are making it transparent. In contrast, Russia is determined to make it opaque and the Trump administration has made it translucent. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl... @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
A small thing, but telling. The National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes
It’s been a while since we checked in with our friends at the National Park Service.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A small thing, but telling. The National Park Service Ends Fee-Free Days on MLK Day and Juneteenth and Places Trump on America the Beautiful Passes open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The article is somewhat snarky, but it has insight into what makes Trump tick: The joys of a 12-year old boy with no parents to say he can't.
COLUMN: Trump is the president who just won’t grow up.
Instead of focusing on governing, he spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.
Instead of focusing on governing, he spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence, writes our politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.
The President Who Never Grew Up
Instead of focusing on governing, Trump spends his days chasing entertainment, attention and renovation projects that reflect a presidency stuck in adolescence.
www.politico.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The article is somewhat snarky, but it has insight into what makes Trump tick: The joys of a 12-year old boy with no parents to say he can't.
Peggy Noonan on this era of political violence. We need to cool it. How can we? www.wsj.com/opinion/were...
Opinion | We’re in an Era of Political Violence
Trump has been a target, but he speaks so carelessly that he could end up becoming an instigator.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Peggy Noonan on this era of political violence. We need to cool it. How can we? www.wsj.com/opinion/were...
The cybersecurity of our country always had to depend on cooperation between government and the private sector. It now seems that the federal government is folding its tent. wapo.st/4iaHqBR
Opinion | The cyberattacks are coming. Will anyone be there to stop them?
Trump administration job cuts worsen U.S. vulnerabilities to China and other cyber-adversaries.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The cybersecurity of our country always had to depend on cooperation between government and the private sector. It now seems that the federal government is folding its tent. wapo.st/4iaHqBR
Rich Harwood has seen that we have fallen out of the habit of thinking locally; we focus instead on national issues and look outside our community for solutions. This makes us spectators, not players. There is so much more that we can do if we think and act locally.
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Rebuilding Democracy from the Bottom Up
A 'New Civic Path' in our local communities may be America's best hope
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November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Rich Harwood has seen that we have fallen out of the habit of thinking locally; we focus instead on national issues and look outside our community for solutions. This makes us spectators, not players. There is so much more that we can do if we think and act locally.
open.substack.com/pub/civicbar...
open.substack.com/pub/civicbar...
The empathy is missing.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The empathy is missing.
Ukraine reports that Russia's draft defense budget cuts military spending, but increases spending on state-run media. If this is true, it suggests that Russia is emphasizing information warfare and propaganda.
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Kremlin Shifts Focus to Information Warfare
Yuri Lapaiev
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ukraine reports that Russia's draft defense budget cuts military spending, but increases spending on state-run media. If this is true, it suggests that Russia is emphasizing information warfare and propaganda.
open.substack.com/pub/jamestow...
open.substack.com/pub/jamestow...
How to deal with Trump and MAGA: Do some adulting. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
How to deal with Trump and MAGA: Do some adulting. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Congress calls DoD. “Let me put you on hold….” open.substack.com/pub/jimvoor/...
Congress calls DoD. “Let me put you on hold….”
Pete Hegseth is limiting communications between the Department of Defense/War and Congress by requiring responses to all requests for information from Congress to be approved by the main office for le...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Congress calls DoD. “Let me put you on hold….” open.substack.com/pub/jimvoor/...
Thoughts on the economic and political power of big business with notes on Peter Thiel and the Leninist roots of The Matrix open.substack.com/pub/jimvoor/...
Liberalism, Monopoly, and Power
Thoughts on the economic and political power of big business with notes on Peter Thiel and the Leninist roots of The Matrix
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October 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thoughts on the economic and political power of big business with notes on Peter Thiel and the Leninist roots of The Matrix open.substack.com/pub/jimvoor/...
On Hegseth's speech to the generals
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On Hegseth's speech to the generals
My latest in The Atlantic
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October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On Hegseth's speech to the generals
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Trump proved Goldwater and Friedman right about the perils of relying on the federal government. It is time to find local solutions to our problems.
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The Trump Era Requires Local Means to Solve Old Problems
Trump has shown the perils of relying on the federal government
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September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump proved Goldwater and Friedman right about the perils of relying on the federal government. It is time to find local solutions to our problems.
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Trump's EO on Antifa targets an idea, not an organization. Cato calls it 'idiotic on multiple levels.'
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
On Trump's Anti-Antifa Executive Order
Trump issued his long-threatened executive order (EO) designating an idea—antifascism, known by its shorthand version, Antifa—a “domestic terrorist organization.”
www.cato.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Trump's EO on Antifa targets an idea, not an organization. Cato calls it 'idiotic on multiple levels.'
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...
It is often said that China and Russia play chess while the US plays checkers. Not so now. Trump plays Monopoly, hoping to erect a hotel on Boardwalk.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | Our Allies Are Asking: Why Does Putin Still Own Trump? (Gift Article)
Ukrainian and European officials, analysts and entrepreneurs keep asking privately, “What’s up with Trump?”
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It is often said that China and Russia play chess while the US plays checkers. Not so now. Trump plays Monopoly, hoping to erect a hotel on Boardwalk.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Trump's National Park Service removes parts of our history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Trump's National Park Service removes parts of our history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
Tariff revenue is (1) smaller than advertised, (2) largely comes from Americans, and (3) won’t do much to solve the US’s long-term fiscal challenges www.cato.org/blog/three-t...
Three Things You Should Know About the Record Tariff Revenue
Is the federal government really raising four times as much tariff revenue as it did a year ago? No.
www.cato.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tariff revenue is (1) smaller than advertised, (2) largely comes from Americans, and (3) won’t do much to solve the US’s long-term fiscal challenges www.cato.org/blog/three-t...
Despite offers to buy contraceptives that would have gone to the global poor, Trump's officials had them destroyed. Immoral destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Despite offers to buy contraceptives that would have gone to the global poor, Trump's officials had them destroyed. Immoral destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Senator Danforth is eloquent in support of food aid. We should be generous; we have become penurious. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Feeding the starving was once a basic U.S. value. Not with ‘America First.’
Too many political leaders today embrace a concept of America as a nation that cares only about itself.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Senator Danforth is eloquent in support of food aid. We should be generous; we have become penurious. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
A Deeper Look at Trump’s Signature by a CIA Officer with Graphology/Forensic Document Examination Training
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A Deeper Look at Trump’s Signature by a CIA Officer with Graphology/Forensic Document Examination Training
In my CIA days I worked a number of times with graphologists, who were considered to be a valid source of psychological insight into someone we might be looking at to recruit, or a foreign leader.
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A Deeper Look at Trump’s Signature by a CIA Officer with Graphology/Forensic Document Examination Training
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Sanctions against Russia are lifted, quietly. We are no buying eggs—eggs!—and diamonds from them.
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The U.S. Starts Buying Eggs From Russia
And Treasury issues a waiver for some diamonds
open.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Sanctions against Russia are lifted, quietly. We are no buying eggs—eggs!—and diamonds from them.
open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...
open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...
Truth from Peggy Noonan about the history we need to know, www.wsj.com/opinion/we-n...
Opinion | We Need to Know History, Especially Now
A new collection of works by David McCullough helps put our tumultuous times in perspective.
www.wsj.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Truth from Peggy Noonan about the history we need to know, www.wsj.com/opinion/we-n...