Welcome to MAGA airspace. Just sit back and enjoy your flight. Maybe you’re overjoyed that a federal judge has summarily nixed the federal mandate requiring masks on planes and other modes of public transit. Forgive me for not joining in. I’m flying a lot these days,...
By Chris Satullo Sometimes, beholding the impassioned but often puerile pageant of American society and politics, I wonder. I wonder whether. I wonder how. I wonder why. I wonder at. Here are some of the topics of wonder that haunt my brain: I wonder how many of the...
I’m guessing that the French presidential election isn’t high on your current list of interests. If not, I suggest you take a long look at the photos that feature Vladimir Putin communing with one of his favorite goons, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen....
Sigmund Freud did pioneering research on “defensive projection” – the crappy human habit of attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. Indeed, Freud would have a field day with our current Republican cultists, who seem determined to smear Democrats as...
My wife of 45 years died six months ago today. I have been processing her loss ever since. But the American Psychiatric Association now says that I have only six more months to heal myself, and that if I blow the deadline, I should be clinically defined as mentally...
