Patrick Lawrence: The Epstein Follies
There appears to be a good chance that Trump and his people have concluded that there is a fine line between attacking the Deep State and going along with it.
Patrick Lawrence: Speak, Claudia!
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost LAGO de CHAPALA, Mexico—Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came…
Patrick Lawrence: Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans
Trump’s determination to end the Ukraine war has forced the Europeans, at last, to go their own way. And they charge in precisely the wrong direction.
Patrick Lawrence: What Odds, as Trump Takes on the Deep State?
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the second of two essays considering President Trump’s unfolding offensive against the institutions and agencies comprising the deep state — the…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump 2.0 Crosses the Atlantic
Whatever the future may hold — and seldom does it present such promise and peril as now — Trump and his national-security team set a lot of wheels in motion…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump vs. the Deep State
Either Donald Trump will begin to exert political control over the invisible government or the invisible government will sink Donald Trump just as it did during his first term as…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Musk & the Myth of USAID
By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News What hath the MAGA movement wrought? I doubt the archest of Donald Trump’s arch-enemies ever imagined that in his second term he would take…
Patrick Lawrence: All the Gloves Come Off in Gaza
At this fraught moment, we cannot use Trump to hide ourselves from ourselves, as many Americans, especially their purported leaders, are very prone to doing.
Patrick Lawrence: Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
The new liberal consensus, born of a shared “exhaustion,” is that it is time to “tune out,” or “take a break,” or simply close one’s eyes and ears.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Failures, America’s Failures
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Well, we now have a president who says what he means, and this is an advance beyond the four years Americans spent listening…
Patrick Lawrence: Exeunt, the Man from Scranton
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I honestly do not think Joe Biden ever had a chance to make sense of his four years as president. It is not…
Patrick Lawrence: The Predictable Capitulation of Tulsi Gabbard
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the…
Patrick Lawrence: The Nihilism of Antony Blinken
Antony Blinken is utterly indifferent to “what the public thinks” by his own profession. He doesn’t do politics, you see.
Patrick Lawrence: American-Century Fight
“American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run.
Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds
What happens when a great but declining power loses a war, the very most decisive war, it cannot afford to lose?