
The last Gandalf
The old ambassador had me at “hoodwinked.” When he added “bamboozled” and “railroaded,” I was in Seventh Heaven, as always [...]

Vendetta in the rearview mirror
When the likes of John R. Bolton and Steve Bannon were still relatively young men —Donald Trump, also — newly [...]

Poisoned, again
When one insurgency hitch falters, hitch a ride with another. A mid-route transfer of this kind appears to be taking [...]

The hard part
In the crude tap-dance that animates the vindictive side of politics, having an enemy under investigation as a potential crook [...]

Ominous palms
Some reliable sources talk nonsense. Savants can have the same knack. This did not stop the oversight of a gypsy [...]

Beasts of the Cretaceous II
After being delivered to a child psychologist to exorcise my affection for all things gone – my inner world hinged [...]

All the time in the world
One day soon the United States will strike a face-saving deal to extricate its troops from Afghanistan. It will be [...]

The 60 percent solution
Not all results are created equal. Aspects of politics and sports suggest the way victory is arrived at and how [...]

Beasts of the Cretaceous
Long before I started going blind, I was an only child in a capital city. A more practical way of [...]

The American crown
What emanated from this American president is not fascism, as some are wont to believe, but monarchism. This president is [...]