I’ll bet you thought I’m going to write about his last-ditch zoom-zoom Air Force One roundelay of rallies trying to prop up Republican losers running for House and Senate, didn’t you?

One of the first rules of election year politics has to be, you don’t want an October surprise.

I have been spending an inordinate amount of my time recently trying to figure out AI, or artificial intelligence.

Somebody wants supper.

It was another night in West Hollywood.

The great big United States of America, which has “the most powerful military in the world” as hand-puppet Pete and Trump himself tell us about every seven minutes, have moved the entire fleet of B-1 ...

We are knit together as a country far more tightly than we think.

I have been down and out with a vicious roto-rooter virus that had me up and down, bed to bathroom, for 24-plus hours, and from which I am only now in semi-recovery, having taken my first solid food i...

It’s October, Halloween is coming, and it’s time to look at the graveyard of Trump’s administration.

Let’s get this out of the way right now: General George S.

Especially when it comes to shit details, tasks or missions that have no purpose other than polishing the brass of the senior commanders and the egos of the politicians who give the orders.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith underwent several hours of stupidly aggressive and just plain stupid and just plain aggressive questioning from Republicans at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on...

I’ve been wondering what was behind Chinese President Xi’s trip to see Trump at the White House, haven’t you?

Haven’t we had enough rogue AI agents escape from the company systems that run and own them already?

This is how the front of the living room looks all day long — me at the keyboard, Little the Christmas rescue cat on her desk perch.

This by far the most dangerous thing that could possibly happen before the midterm elections.

The White House credentials of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico were restored at noon today, eight minutes after a lawyer for the three news outlets had filed an emergency motion to Judge Timothy J.

It is not everything that my family and my cousins in the Hemings family have been working on for more than 25 years, but it is a step in the right direction. Earlier this month, Cedric Jessup Jr.

Here we go again.

It has finally happened.

Let’s get right to it: He claimed the arch will be used to “hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.”

This is what the White House press room could have looked like after MS NOW, CNN, and Politico reporters were turned away at the security gate of the White House today.

Two threads of the AI story came together today with the revelation of the amount of money OpenAI paid to the hackers who exposed the vulnerabilities of its system last July. It was $6,500.

He’s not just out to dishonor one of our greatest presidents by cursing the Kennedy Center with his name. He doesn’t just intend to destroy the People’s House and turn it into Trump Tower II. He also ...

It will hardly surprise you to learn that Donald Trump had his 19th nervous breakdown yesterday over the John F.

It took him 25 years, but Osama bin Laden is winning his war on the Great Satan. He wanted to bring to an end the U.S.

I was going to write a column over the weekend about how tired I am of typing the names of places in the Middle East, such as the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the mouth of the Red Sea, or Al Jubail, the na...

When I was at West Point in the 1960’s, we took a class called “Ordnance Engineering.” They waited until you were a senior to teach it, so you had the advantage of three years of studying calculus, di...

Answer: Yes.

Vice President JD Vance, or whatever his name is these days, gravely undercut his putative ally in the Trump administration, Secretary of Something Or Another Pete Hegseth, by talking privately to mil...

“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” said a man who is a top scientist at the AI company Anthropic yesterday. He continued, “we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for supe...

Trump just keeps escalating. There were more attacks by the U.S.

Reading through this final installment, I was stricken by how little has changed with the Republican Party in a half-century.

In which the Watergate story unfolds slowly a thousand miles away to the north, as the convention heats up and your intrepid correspondent endeavors to figure out what the hell is going on and how he’...

I guess we’re fairly inured to Trump’s daily bellowing at this point. Practically every day presents us with another Oval Office press-thingee, with Trump surrounded by fawning corporate executives or...

In which things really begin to get weird: Ron Rosenbaum and I run into a mysterious Republican political operative in Flamingo Park, and Hunter Thompson and I attempt to rent a speedboat to travel by...

It starts with the generals and goes straight through political waste and fraud in his ballooned-up budget and ends with a demoralized force of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. That will be Hegs...

Taking a night off with Little, our newest feral rescue, watching over me.

You knew it was coming. Yesterday, the U.S.

It was the middle of August in the summer of 1972. The streets of the Village were emptier than usual. People were out of town on Fire Island, or down at the Jersey shore, or lazing around on the porc...

Less than a year after all the military’s generals and admirals were ordered to gather in Quantico, Virginia, where they heard speeches from both the Secretary of Defense and Donald Trump, the Wall St...

Look at this fool. Remember this photograph. Come November, it’s going to count.

You really have to go back and look hard to find a more incompetent asshole Secretary of Defense than Pete “I used to be a National Guard Major” Hegseth. Even the incompetent ones, like McNamara and R...

Everybody knows the best way to deal with a bully is to hit him in the face and bloody his nose, because blood has a way of instantly getting the bully’s attention.

Birthdays are a big deal in the Harris-Truscott house, because, why not!

The big story that’s all over the place this afternoon is the firing of the editor of Stars and Stripes, the quasi-governmental semi-independent newspaper that is provided for free to service members ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced what he bragged would be “the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country.” You will be astonished to learn that Trump’s threat to economically st...

Natalie Harp would be just another of those adoring faces behind Trump at a rally, ever smiling, laughing at the weakest of his jokes, delighted when he breaks into his absurd Trump-dance, fists jutti...

Start putting their names on campaign signs: xAI and OpenAI and Amazon and Oracle and Nvidia and Google and Microsoft and Meta and AMD and Scale AI – all the big tech companies that have architects an...

I am fully cognizant of the uselessness of expecting the daily mutterings of the President of the United States to make sense. He doesn’t, and his mutterings don’t.