Author: maha

Here’s a fun read — All the Places Trump Was on 9/11 by Marie-Rose Sheinerman at The Atlantic. I doubt Trump was in any of […]

My biggest worry for the week is that some jerks will show up at the New York City September 11 observance to protest Mayor Mamdani. […]

This is just a quick note to let you know I haven’t evaporated and advise you to rest up tomorrow for the rest of the […]

I’m reading about the first-ever Republican midterm convention to be held in Dallas next week. There’s a Wall Street Journal headline about it that mentions […]

If anyone really wanted to start a war against the U.S., or a war involving a U.S. interest, now would be the time. The U.S. […]

So Trump blew up at Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. She was one of four reporters who wrote that Trump will not be […]

Many years ago I worked for a textbook company that was producing a middle-school social studies textbook on countries in the Western Hemisphere that are […]

I’m picking up more details about Trump’s trade war with Canada. One bit I didn’t notice right away is that Trump’s 50 percent tariffs don’t […]

Can you remember when Republicans called themselves the “Party of Ideas”? That started back in the 1970s, I believe, and fizzled out sometimes in the […]

Trump has managed to alienate Canada from the U.S., for no discernible reason. It’s like he just enjoys pissing people off. The trade talks–  over […]

On Sunday Trump announced the U.S. would be scaling back long-planned military exercises with South Korea, just hours before they were to begin. Trump also […]

One thing we’re learning from this year’s primaries is that old-fashioned organizing can beat television advertising. In primaries, anyway. This may be good news, as […]

What do active-duty military think of Trump these days? There was a time when I had family members who were career army, but they’re no […]

The emirs and princes and various other leaders of the Middle East are over Trump now. After months of conflict, and continuing missile and drone strikes […]

Trump’s war in Iran appears to be heading for a T.S. Eliot ending — not with a bang, but a whimper. But not right away. […]

This will be a little different. I need to rant about health care. As y’all well know, the United States is the only industrialized nation […]