Unlike Claudius in “Hamlet,” who at least thinks he is accountable to God, Trump doesn’t think he should be accountable to anyone.
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How Trump Is Like and Unlike Claudius
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The GOP, through the Looking Glass
Cartoonist Tom Toles has a very smart Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass take on Trump and the GOP.
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The Real Face of Patriotism
When William McRaven asked, out of sympathy with John Brennan, that his own security clearance be withdrawn, he behaved like Brecht’s poet in “Burning of the Books.”
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Are Dems Hampered by “Moral Claptrap”?
Wilkie Collins’s villainous Count Fosco will do whatever it takes to win–which puts him in the company of Trump and McConnell’s GOP.
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When the Court Itself Is on Trial
The GOP may be preparing an impeachment trial that has a predetermined ending–just as the one that appears in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Dante on Income Inequality
Dante puts those who exacerbate income inequality in his fourth circle of hell.
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Hopefully, Trump Is the Queen of Hearts
Is Trump like Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts? In the case of Iran, let’s hope so.
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Taming Americans through Gaslighting
Increasingly we are being gaslighted by Donald Trump and his GOP followers. Carl Rosin identifies “Taming of the Shrew” as one of the great plays about gaslighting.
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Did Clancy Influence Iran Decision?
Intelligence expert Malcolm Nance speculates that a Tom Clancy novel may have contributed toward the killing of the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
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