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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.6,550 2,355Sep 15, 2025 -
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Trumper obsession with Harvard is a cringe-inducing drama around status envy.
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You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
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Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.
(Gifted.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...Trump’s Most Dangerous GambitHis irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.2,124 968Jan 14, 2026 -
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This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
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Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...2,206 862Apr 3, 2026 -
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If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...2,817 860Apr 7, 2026 -
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Hot off the keyboard and gifted:
Hegseth has to go.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...3,039 847Dec 1, 2025 -
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And millions of people accept this as normal and not a sign of a significantly disordered personality.
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The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.2,278 794Oct 22, 2025 -
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The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...3,281 796Sep 30, 2025 -
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In any other administration (including Trump's first one), someone in the Pentagon would have said: "Mr. President, you cannot order the military to murder a bunch of people on a boat on the high seas."
Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.3,507 782Sep 8, 2025 -
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The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:
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Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.
The queen of all vices: Pride.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...3,176 769Apr 16, 2026 -
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We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...2,517 764Apr 14, 2026 -
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As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...2,648 752May 25, 2026 -
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Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up?
I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...2,250 719Oct 5, 2025 -
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Trump has lost control of this war and his flailing in Ankara shows just how completely adrift he really is.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...2,508 710Jul 8, 2026
