Lucian K. Truscott IV

Why Is the Republican Party Acting Suicidal?

Why Is the Republican Party Acting Suicidal?

The shooter in Jacksonville, Florida, who killed three black people at a Dollar General store last Saturday was an angry, suicidal racist. The Republican Party, in ways large and small, is acting just like him.
The Contrived Modesty of Mark Meadows

The Contrived Modesty of Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows, the former president's last chief of staff, now indicted for crimes related to trying to overturn the 2020 election, is trying to paint himself as a modest public servant—just trying to do his job...
An Uptick in COVID Cases—We’ve Been Here Before

An Uptick in COVID Cases—We’ve Been Here Before

Today's COVID story may be anecdotal for the moment, but when hospitalizations start shooting up and schools start closing within two weeks of the new school year, it’s pretty clear something is happening out there, and it isn’t good.
Was Yevgeny Prigozhin a Dead Man Flying?

Was Yevgeny Prigozhin a Dead Man Flying?

Once and for all, Putin has shown the world and his countrymen that in Russia, they don’t bother with departments of justice and special counsels and two-year investigations and grand juries and indictments.
Digesting Trump’s Monster Georgia Indictment

Digesting Trump’s Monster Georgia Indictment

Trump's Georgia indictment contains the kind of stuff you might read in a Russian novel or reporting from the capital of a third-world nation just overtaken by a coup—but they happened here, in America.