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Lucian K. Truscott IvSalon |
If past is prologue, a second Trump administration could crush the First Amendment
Let’s stop repeating Republican talking points and call deportation what it is: Kidnapping and theft
How quickly we forget. On the morn of President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, there is nary a column inch about who Trump pardoned before he...
If you have an abiding interest in American history, as I do, I suggest that you pay close attention to what is happening in Washington D.C. as we...
My email inbox over the weekend was flooded with stories about the appointments of Pete Hegseth to Secretary of Defense and Matt Gaetz to Attorney...
While Memorial Day honors those who have died in our foreign wars, Veterans Day honors the service of all those who have served this country in...
If the toxic mix of arrogance and certainty could be captured on film, it would look like the faces of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The...
Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden was only the most recent of the many hate fests that have marked not only his...
Donald J. Trump infamously called for the termination of the Constitution when he was seeking to be declared the “RIGHTFUL WINNER” of the 2020...
Lying and denial go hand in hand. Every time a lie is told, a denial must be concocted to protect the lie by denying that it is a lie. What Donald...
The way political journalism worked before Donald Trump seems quaint in retrospect. If it was a presidential election year, a reporter was assigned a...
It’s long been a cliché that Republicans are against the government until disaster strikes. At a 1986 press conference, Ronald Reagan uttered the...
I remember when I covered the presidential campaign (briefly) for the late-lamented Village Voice in 2016. The first thing I did was log onto...
Here’s a question: Why hasn’t there been more shock about the second (apparent) attempt on the life of Donald Trump in as many months? I mean,...
All that the thing on ABC tonight will have in common with a debate is two lecterns and two people...er, ah…one person and a mental health crisis in...
If 2020 was the face mask election, this one is turning out to be the Bounty election — you know…the “quicker picker upper” paper towels we...
“I launched my campaign for the President of the United States a mere two weeks ago,” Vice President Kamala Harris noted at the start of her...
It’s hard to believe that it’s been only a week. I’ve been looking for the word to describe the feeling of the change that happened since Joe...
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s appearance before the House Oversight Committee on Monday to answer questions about the attempted...
Judge Aileen Cannon ran her courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida, like a massage parlor for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best friends, and on Monday she...
While Democrats have busied themselves arguing whether they should stick with the presidential candidate they’ve already got, the current president,...
While Democrats have busied themselves arguing whether they should stick with the presidential candidate they’ve already got, the current president,...
Compare and contrast. That’s what a political campaign is for; candidates present their vision of where they will take the country, and why you...
It’s Lee Atwater time for the Trump campaign. It’s understandable if the name escapes you. Atwater hasn’t been in the news much since he...
Propaganda used to be a dirty word in this country. Long associated with authoritarian regimes in countries like Russia and China, propaganda as it...
We have to come up with a new word for “unhinged.” That was my reaction after watching the entirety of Donald Trump’s speech at his Las Vegas...
The news today is filled with photographs and stories about tornados that have blasted through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kentucky. At least 25...
Let me ask you a question: How many all-expenses-paid vacations at luxury hunting and fishing lodges have you enjoyed over the last few years? I’m...
Up and down and around and around and up and down we go, and where we’ll stop nobody knows! That’s not me talking; it’s not even a carnival...
Both chambers of Congress, including the Republican-led and disarrayed House of Representatives, just passed a supplemental foreign aid bill that...
An act of war. I’ll just bet you didn’t see or hear those words in any coverage over the weekend of Iran’s aggression from the air on Israel....
When was the last time you pulled the elastic bands of a KN-95 mask behind your ears and felt its effect on your lungs as you took your next breath? ...
It may seem superfluous to say this, but it needs saying: He means it. Donald Trump meant it when he called his mob to Washington in December of 2020...
If there’s one thing the last 72 hours have taught us, it’s how hard it is to be a woman and a Republican these days. Take the woman who has...
Two things…check that…three things appear to have gone off the rails at the paper we used to call the Gray Lady. First, whoever is in charge of...
Man, one thing you can depend on Republicans for is that if you give them a shovel, they will just keep on digging. Last week the Alabama Supreme...
What do you think would happen if one day you looked out your window and saw a box truck pull up and park outside your house, and a bunch of armed men...
This is what was happening in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday night. Donald Trump was speaking at a rally he said was the biggest ever held...
You have to wonder what it would take to get House and Senate Republicans to get off their collective duffs and walk across their respective cloak...