A long awaited, long overdue, baby step toward accountability. Tectonic nevertheless. A relatively short King’s Necktie today, for reasons that I will explain later. But after almost six years of writing this blog, there’s no way I was letting the (first) indictment of Donald Trump go uncommented upon. The Least of His Crimes Ever since…

There is a lot to talk about since we last spoke. The US Air Force establishing air superiority over latex balloons. The special counsel’s subpoena of Mike Pence. The wanton hypocrisy of Ron DeSantis when it comes to firearms. The inability of the American people to recognize when an administration…

Biden’s gift to Trump jeopardizes what seemed like a slam dunk. As many many observers have noted, Donald Trump is the luckiest motherfucker on the planet. Born into obscene privilege, he has led a life cosseted in unearned wealth and power, exempting him from consequences for 72 years of unrelentingly…

The infantile gainsaying of the GOP. The Big Lebowski is not my favorite Coen Brothers film. (That would be Raising Arizona. Second place: three-way tie between Miller’s Crossing, Fargo, and A Serious Man.) …

A disturbing and deceitful narrative arising around Ron DeSantis. I noticed it as soon as Ron DeSantis emerged from the midterms as the Republican Party’s new flavor of the month. It was a casual assertion — so casual, in fact, that you might easily have missed it — but presented…

Autocracy taints Brazil’s beautiful game, and the world’s joy in watching it. The chatter surrounding the World Cup — sorry, the FIFA World Cup — has largely centered on the corruption and absurdity of holding the tournament in the dead of winter in the obscenely rich (and just plain obscene)…

The midterms prove that sanity is still alive in America, barely. But Republicans will now work overtime to kill it. It is axiomatic that, in war, the losers learn more than the winners. Given how much reckless talk of actual civil war is in the air, I am hesitant to…

What the war in Ukraine tells us about the unabated danger of nuclear weapons. For the past 40 years, there has been no more eloquent or passionate opponent of the madness of nuclear weaponry than James Carroll. A child of the duck-and-cover era and son of a three-star Air Force…

The absurdity of anyone voting Republican in the midterms. With the 2022 midterms only 19 days away, the oddsmakers tell us that the GOP remains favored to retake the House, while the Senate is a razor thin contest that could go either way. This, after Democratic hopes rallied in late…