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BOOM!
That wasn’t a supersonic jet crashing through the sound barrier you just heard.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Crime boss Donald Trump beats John Gotti at his own game
Every crime boss has the same problem: what do you do with your ill-gotten gains?
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Iran doesn’t have midterms
Do you want to know what our president spent today doing?
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Things that need to be said
Let’s start by calling the 57 missile strikes that have sunk boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean what they are: murders.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Trump and Xi: Huh?
Donald Trump’s world rotates on an axis of praise and hate.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Trump is in China. Here is picture of our cats to keep you sane.
Four of our five as they await a feeding, with the stuffed cat doorstop standing in for Little, who doesn’t move far from my desk or her spot under the…
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
It’s not redistricting. It’s election fixing.
A bazillion words have been written on the obscenely corrupt Louisiana v.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Get out the popcorn: Trump’s humiliation by Iran is going to be one for the ages
Donald Trump needs to go ahead and lose his stupid-ass war on Iran and let the world get back to what passes for normal.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Putin is moving from bunker to bunker as Ukrainian drones rain down on Moscow and more than 1,000 Russian soldiers are killed every week
At least Donald Trump still walks across the South Lawn to his Marine helicopter and stops occasionally to banter incoherently with the press.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Memo from the Foreign Affairs Desk
Over the years, I have sat down at a good number of Foreign Affairs Desks to write reports.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
I took a short nap, and the world flipped upside down while my head was on the pillow
Okay, let’s begin with the important stuff.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
Hanta - schmanta: RFK Jr. wants to call the whole thing off
It’s a 20-minute drive from Miami International Airport to Port Miami, the world’s busiest cruise ship port.
 • Lucian K. Truscott IV
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