Alon Ben-Meir: Donald Trump’s aura of invincibility is disintegrating
The widening fissures inside the Republican Party over Donald Trump’s broader unilateralism and chaotic foreign policy are sharpening an older divide.
The widening fissures inside the Republican Party over Donald Trump’s broader unilateralism and chaotic foreign policy are sharpening an older divide.
Dysfunction, decadence, depravity and a death cult: that, in a nutshell, sums up the mindset now at the heart of the Trump administration.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger is trolling her predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, with two appointments to the Virginia Commission on Higher Education announced on Tuesday.
The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises.
Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, getting the Cricket treatment from Donald Trump, who announced on Thursday that he will be naming her “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas.”
War is terrible, and unfortunately, we have another one on our hands; in the Middle East, of all places, where we don’t exactly have a sparkling track record.
The story from the Trump regime on Monday: Israel forced our hand on Iran. The story from Donald Trump himself on Tuesday: “I might have forced their hand.”
We’re now at war with Iran, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, because Benjamin Netanyahu told us he was planning to attack Iranian targets, and we needed to protect U.S. interests in the Middle East from retaliatory attacks from Tehran.

Remember Donald Trump, lying through his teeth, making the claim in his State of the Union speech, which was just last week, that gas was below $2.30 a gallon in most states?
In the last century people marveled at the Wright Brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon.
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