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Lucian K. Truscott IV

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives in rural Pennsylvania and spends his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better. You can read his daily columns at luciantruscott.substack.com and follow him on Twitter @LucianKTruscott and on Facebook at Lucian K. Truscott IV.

US President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, November 7, 2024, after Donald Trump won the presidential election. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

On Biden’s prostate cancer and dealing with disease “down there”

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President Donald Trump bows his head during a Easter blessing by Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., in the Oval Office of the White House on April 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

The art of spoiling Trump’s deal: Sit back and wait

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Former President Donald Trump and moderator Kristen Welker appear in a pre taped interview on “Meet the Press” at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, in Bedminster, NJ, Sep. 13, 2023. (William B. Plowman/NBC)

Our fourth branch of government is saving us

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Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

An American emergency: Is the patient half alive or half dead?

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US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

John Roberts created this monster. What is he going to do about him?

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US President Donald Trump departs aboard Marine One after visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on July 11, 2020. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

A tragedy and a scandal reveal Trump’s low regard for the lives of soldiers

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Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense a luncheon following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

War planning by emoji

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Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 28, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. - Losses on Wall Street deepened following a bruising open, as global markets were poised to conclude their worst week since 2008 with another rout. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

How long till the next big crash? Because it’s definitely coming

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U.S. Vice President-elect former Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrive to inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Listless, uninspired and robotic: Trump’s vision of a “golden age of America” rings hollow

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Joe Biden | Marijuana (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mellow, man: Nothing matters when it comes to marijuana

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A man waits for a train on a snow covered platform at the Garden City LIRR station on January 15, 1961. (Jim Cavanagh/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

Jingle bells, shotgun shells: The stick up on Christmas Eve

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US President Donald Trump poses with ABC New anchor George Stephanopoulos ahead of a town hall event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 15, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

ABC News capitulates to Donald Trump. Is this the future of American media?

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Donald Trump | Migrants walk on the US side of the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs, California on June 5, 2024, after walking crossing from Mexico. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Remembering Donald Trump’s last political abduction racket

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Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden (Photo illustration. by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s Hunter lesson: The political high road is a mirage

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Donald Trump and Jack Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The end of the special counsel forever? Jack Smith is in survival mode

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he leaves court during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 22, 2024 in New York City. (Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)

Mr. Me Too: Donald Trump surrounds himself with small, weak men 

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Group of soldiers (Getty Images/Thinkstock Images)

Donald Trump versus the “woke” military: More proof he hates America

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Supporters of Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Betting it all on fluoride: Trump takes a risky final gamble to let RFK Jr. “go wild” on health

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Former US President Donald Trump arrives back to Trump Tower after the first day of his trial in New York City on April 15, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

There is a great big hole in the surface of the Earth where a certain man’s heart should be

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Donald Trump VS the US Constitution (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does the Constitution even apply to Donald Trump? If he wins, probably not

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall at the Greenville Convention Center on February 20, 2024 in Greenville, South Carolina. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Trump’s lie-industrial complex

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Donald Trump | Trump Tower (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously

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Ronald Reagan (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

When natural disaster strikes, the legacy of Ronald Reagan haunts

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Former US president Donald Trump on the 4th hole at Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Co. Clare, during his visit to Ireland. Picture date: Thursday May 4, 2023. (Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)

For Donald Trump, it’s the golf that matters

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