Lucian K. Truscott IV (page 4)

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 and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday December 21, 2022. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Lucian K. Truscott IV (page 4)

Is the war in Ukraine at a major turning point? It sure looks that way

The shutdown caucus really wins: The House power grab was always bigger than Kevin McCarthy

How I spent Christmas of 1968 — in dirty, snowy, brilliant, thrilling New York City

Why in the hell did we need cryptocurrency? The collapse of FTX and SBF explained, sort of

Who missed Thanksgiving dinner this year? Everybody who got shot

Is this the end of our national Trump bender? Yeah, we’ve heard that one before

GOP’s Halloween horror show: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t need a costume

Beating a dead horse: Jan. 6 committee has proved what we all knew. Does it even matter?

Don’t pitch those masks! New COVID surge in U.K. shows what’s waiting for us this fall

They have him surrounded: Trump now faces legal troubles in three states, plus D.C.

Trump and consequences: After an amazing series of unforced errors, indictment is coming

Life after Trump: Someday he’ll be gone. What will Republicans (and Democrats) do then?

What was the FBI looking for in Mar-a-Lago?

What happened in Kansas: Americans know that rights are not just suggestions

Winter is coming: Vladimir Putin faces his “Hitler moment”

Liz Cheney’s smug, self-satisfied con job: Don’t fall for it

Cacophony of dunces: When the Supreme Court trashed the Constitution

Supreme Court’s legal terrorism: Appealing to “tradition” on abortion is obscene

Big boys playing dress-up: Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are dangerous — and deeply embarrassing

So where were the “good guys with guns”? Standing around doing jacks**t, as usual

The Supreme Court guards its privacy. Too bad it doesn’t care about yours and mine

Is the U.S. in a proxy war with Russia? Sergey Lavrov and Lloyd Austin seem to think so

Putin can’t take much more of this: What lies ahead, defeat or apocalypse?

Putin’s big fail: He’s a spook, not a military commander — and not even a good spook