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Fatalism's fatalities

You are excused if you still have not dug yourself out of the blizzard of excuses put forth by Republicans yesterday after six more bodies lay dead in…

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Trump: My free speech rights don't end where your body begins

Imagine this: You’re a clerk to a judge in a New York State court. You graduated from the Cardozo School of Law in 2010, and since then, you have worked…

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The ethic of cozy

In 1976 when I finished writing and publishing my first book, “The Complete Van Book,” there were less than 10 years left until the whole customized van…

Nov 27 •

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The Sanitation Czar of Mosul

When Osama bin Laden masterminded the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 from his command post in Afghanistan, and George W. Bush decided to…

Nov 25 •

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Donald Trump and the end of American exceptionalism

Do you remember the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974? I didn’t remember much about it either, except for a vague recollection that…

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Objective, subjective -- let's just call the whole thing off

Did you read about Trump’s arguments…er, uh, I mean his lawyers’ arguments…yesterday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on why the gag order imposed…

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High, wide and handsome: The John Lombardi years

Yes, the photo above is an SX-70, which all by itself captures an era, doesn’t it? In the slightly fuzzy, slightly off-color of the Polaroid tech of the…

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War as punishment

In his masterwork, “On War,” published in 1832 after his death, you can almost feel the Prussian general and life-long soldier Carl von Clausewitz as he…

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Lucian Truscott Newsletter

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.

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