Lucian K. Truscott Iv

I’ll just bet you haven’t heard the term, “fatal funnel.” Can you imagine what it might be? I mean, try to form an image in your mind of a funnel, any kind of funnel, like the one you might have used to pour oil into your car’s engine, or even a waffle ice cream cone with the small end removed. Now ...

I’ve been trying to figure out what’s going on with Donald Trump’s recent use of profane language and the new level of personal attacks he’s hitting on the campaign trail. Listen to how he described Kamala Harris in Detroit last Friday: “She’s a shit vice president. The worst. You’re the worst vice ...

It crept in overnight, while we were sleeping. Fascism showed its face not with jackboots and concentration camps…not yet, anyway…but rather as just another day in Capitalist America. Two major media companies, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, made decisions to capitulate to the man th...

I assume that Donald Trump is keeping a list, so I want to make sure that my name is on it as one of those he calls the “enemy within.”

In the context of calling Liz Cheney a “war hawk,” Trump says she should be given “a rifle” and face what amounts to a firing squad of “nine barrels.”

It didn't start out so great. In fact, a case could be made that the United States was born a mistake, and our life as a people has been one of struggle to get it right.

We got hit bad on Tuesday night, but we're Democrats. We get up. We stand up. We move forward. I want you to remember that we did it before.

The Pentagon sits there across from Washington D.C. on the Potomac River like…well, I’m something of a master of metaphor, and I can’t think of a single thing that it’s like. Its design is said to have been influenced by the location President Roosevelt initially picked for its site. The site was ch...

What is Donald Trump so afraid of? I ask the question because in the military, it has long been known that only frightened, little men – it has always been men – appoint toadying loyalists to positions under their command. If a frightened little man wants his orders carried out, even when his orders are likely to cause deaths of his compatriots by their idiocy and cravenness, then he must appoint people who will follow his orders unquestioningly. Fellow frightened little men fit that requirement to a T.

The vote was 235 to 174, not even close to the two-thirds majority necessary under the special provision under which Speaker MIKE Johnson had brought the bill to the House floor. Dozens of Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting the bill, most of them because the bill included a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling Trump had demanded for his support.