Trump Is No Fool

And his aides are not rolling their eyes at his stupidities. One of my recent columns at The Guardian: Whatever the Trump era represents, it surely marks the dawn of a golden age of satire. But beware of laughing too much: the joke might be on us. Yes, Trump tweets like a buffoon. But we...

Welcome to Trump’s Fact-Free World

It's apparently time to get over our weird attachment to the facts. One of my recent columns from The Guardian (apologies for posting it late):   The late, great Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say that everyone was entitled to their own opinion but not to their own set of facts. He obviously never imagined...

The Cabinet Apprentice: Trump’s Latest Reality TV Show

My latest at The Guardian is about Trump's trumped up role on The Apprentice: the alpha dog boss pretending to be the successful executive he has never been in real life. That's sadly the show we're watching unfold in his so-called presidential transition right now. The Apprentice, that long, free commercial for a president-elect, hinges on...