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The Donald’s Dictionary

A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from...

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Matthew Stevenson

Crazy Flows the Don

Leaving aside the amen choir in hard-core MAGA circles, is there anyone out there who doesn’t think Donald Trump is bat-shit crazy? How much more...

29.05.2026 20

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Matthew Stevenson

The Commander-in-Thief

The idea that Donald Trump would knock over the justice and treasury departments for $1.776 billion, and then, back at his Mar-a-Lago hideout, split...

22.05.2026 10

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The Trump Tax Man Goeth

That the Trump lawsuit is frivolous is beside the point, just as it was when the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn sued the U.S....

15.05.2026 30

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The Producers: Springtime for Trump

If you’re in like Flynn in the Trump administration, what’s great is that you can lie to Congress, take money and lavish gifts from the Qataris,...

08.05.2026 30

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Humpty Trumpty Sat on a Ball(room)

Having seen Trump shuffle spasmodically to the Village People’s Y.M.C.A., I think we can rule out dancing as the motivation to construct a $400...

01.05.2026 30

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Trump’s Casino Royale: The Iran War

Given that Donald Trump conceives of the presidency as a casino—why else would he be trying to makeover the White House to look like the...

24.04.2026 30

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Victory Disease in Iran

The only person to declare war on Iran was Donald Trump, who approached the campaign as if playing with ships in one of Jeffrey Epstein’s hot tubs....

17.04.2026 10

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Matthew Stevenson

Victory Disease in Iran

The only person to declare war on Iran was Donald Trump, who approached the campaign as if playing with ships in one of Jeffrey Epstein’s hot tubs....

16.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Persian War

I don’t think there is anything that gives Donald Trump quite so much pleasure as failure, perhaps one of the reasons why he is so enjoying blowing...

09.04.2026 10

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Letter From Peć: The “Lost” Monasteries

Before heading toward Skopje and my flight to Cyprus, I visited the two Orthodox monasteries for which Peja (as Peć) is famous—the Patriarchal...

05.03.2026 10

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Letter From Peja, Kosovo

On a visit to Kosovo in 2007, I decided against renting a car and instead found a local doctor who, in exchange for western currency, was all too...

27.02.2026 20

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Matthew Stevenson

Letter From Kosovo

In search of winter sun, I decided to travel from Geneva (where I live, despite the risks of “civilizational erasure”) to Cyprus and ride my bike...

20.02.2026 30

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Europe on Five Trumps a Day

It’s no secret that President Donald Trump and his talking dummy Vice President JD Vance only have contempt for Europe as a political entity or...

30.01.2026 30

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Who (or What) Will Stop Trump?

Normally, when a president is a card-carrying pedophile protector; an inside-trading stock jobber; an obstruction-of-justice hall of famer; a lifetime...

23.01.2026 30

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Trump’s Crypto-Card Monte

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” —Quote...

20.06.2025 30

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Trump, Nixon, Reagan and the Alger Hiss Case

Although the details of the case would be lost on him (don’t forget, presidential aides had to explain the historical rudiments of Pearl Harbor when...

02.05.2025 20

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Matthew Stevenson