The Truscott Chronicles

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.
How We Should All Be Talking About Slavery

How We Should All Be Talking About Slavery

How to talk about slavery has been thrust anew into the national conversation by Ron DeSantis, whose state recently passed a law whitewashing how the subject of slavery will be taught in schools in the state.
The Ku Klux Klan Act and Defendant Trump’s Target Letter

The Ku Klux Klan Act and Defendant Trump’s Target Letter

It's never a good sign when you wake up and discover you are facing prosecution under the same law that put Ku Klux Klan members in jail in the 1800’s. But then again, in today’s Republican Party, maybe that is a good thing.
The Putin-Prigozhin Soap Opera Continues

The Putin-Prigozhin Soap Opera Continues

We don’t know any more about Prigozhin’s plans than we do about where Putin sleeps at night. But for right now, it looks like two thugs keeping everyone, including each other, guessing. As Borat would say, “What a country!”