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A collection of 33 posts

Trump

Trump and the Strawberries

I'm surrounded by disloyal officers...like Bondi.

Trump

Am I Writing for SNL Now?

This can't be real.

International Politics

Two Daiquiris at the Floridita and a Lesson America Never Learned

Latin American nations that have, painfully and slowly, moved past the legacy of all the U.S.-backed coups will have to face a clarity they have been avoiding: nothing has changed, the Monroe Doctrine has simply been rearmed by a man who has said, “I can do anything I want.”

Trump

Why We Fight...Oh, Hell, Who Knows?

So, really. Where is this going?

International Politics

The Historic Mindlessness of Americans

"American politicians routinely describe Iran as a rogue state, an irrational actor, an existential threat. What they rarely do is connect that behavior to its historical origins, because doing so would require a reckoning with American responsibility that domestic politics makes nearly impossible."

War

Operation Epstein Fury

Iran will no doubt retaliate by bombing the FBI filing cabinet.

Trump

Nothing New Under the Gun

From the moment Teddy Roosevelt decided the Panama Canal was his personal shortcut to empire, the American narrative in Latin America has been a masterclass in saying one thing and doing another.

War

Operation: Massive Distractstein

Plus, we all dip our beaks in sunny Caracas.

Trump

Take that, Oslo!

Someone wake the President! He got a prize.

Trump

Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition...

It's all coming undone.

Technology

Forget Artificial. Can We Just Get Some Intelligence?

The bad guys are always one step ahead.

Trump

Thank you For Your Attention To This Matter

No more endless wars...OK, except this one.

Trump

"We Love You God"

Nobody changes leaders in the middle of war. Trump, hammered in the polls for tariffs and DOGE cuts, is posturing as a war president and using phrases like this attack “was the likes of what the world has never seen,” and “We love you God,” even as he is launching an unprovoked attack on Iran.

Trump

The Book of War

"Americans don’t have the only culture on the planet struggling with values, but we seem unable to stop funding weapons and wars while we take food and hope and health from children."

Trump

"You Effed Up. You Trusted Us."

Can we get a mulligan on the last election?

Trump

Safety in Wonders

I sat, stunned. I was capsule 32 pulled from the container, which meant my future was not a job or graduate school, or a year spent traveling, but was, instead, a trip to the induction center in Detroit and then likely Fort Knox, Kentucky, to undergo basic training and learn to shoot a gun.

War

The Last Battle of Rudy Gonzalez

“My grandparents and aunt never accepted Uncle Rudy’s death,” Rudy’s nephew Jerry Gonzalez said. “They hoped, prayed, and believed that one day he was going to come home, walk through their front door. Every day they woke with fresh faith. Every day for decades.

Election'

A Culture of Cowardice

I thought about a conversation I had with him on an airplane once because of the recent speculation that George W. Bush might endorse Kamala Harris. Sure, there is a non-zero chance of that happening, but I suggest you place your bets elsewhere.

personal stories

A Summertime Dream

"It's hard not to feel hopeful on days like this and it is just as difficult to avoid thinking about how little America has changed since that Dallas gunfire took us off course. We have had our victories, but they feel now as if they are dissolving in the old anger and we are back where we started."

War

July 1, 1916

“Boys were falling on either side until there were only two of us left. He got it. He was killed. Then I got it. I got two bullets in me. I dropped. Blood was coming out of me...I stopped the blood as best I could...I said my prayers and I seen my mom, as far as I knew, but I knew she wasn’t there.”

War

When Johnny Came Home

The odds of Johnny Mata encountering harm or great danger were considered minimal. But Nancili Mata knew her husband, and it made her worry while her family expressed confidence.

national politics

The Burning Man

“Free Palestine, free Palestine,” he screamed as the fire brought him down. Colleagues who knew him in the military described him as kind, soft-hearted, and caring, the diametric opposite of the angry radical that he is being portrayed in widespread reporting.

War

Oppenheimer and Me

Humans continue to live with the same fear that has haunted us since we initially split the atom. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant and heroic man, was just the first scientist to accomplish the inevitable. There tends to be little moral calculus to science.

War

Caught by the Chill

It's the story of a young man from Nevada, a Marine, who by all witness accounts, was probably the war’s first American casualty. This narrative is based on the reporting, interviewing, and writing I did at the time, and much of it is included in my second book, “Bush’s War for Reelection.” -JM

national politics

Another U.S. Civil War: Is it Inevitable or Avoidable? What Do the Clues of Today Tell Us?

"With a landscape divided by racial, religious, or ethnic lines, civil wars are most often started by the groups that had once been dominant and are in decline. A major trigger for a group in decline is losing a series of elections..."