3+ hour, 3+ min ago (611+ words) Garrett Graff December 02, 2025 " Reading Time: 13 minutes Back in September, after Donald Trump disappeared from view for days and the internet went wild with rumors he was dead or hospitalized, I wrote about how the press needed to be leading a more serious conversation about Trump's health and fitness for the presidency than it was having. In the months since, the evidence has only grown that something serious is afflicting Trump. And then last night happened. One of Trump's overnight postings. During that end-of-August episode, the major questions were about the president's physical health " his bruised hands and his swollen ankles " and in the months since, there have been more reasons and evidence that some part of the president is not well: He appears to have fallen asleep in meetings on multiple recent occasions, including at an Oval Office meeting. But…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago (605+ words) Garrett Graff October 27, 2025 " Reading Time: 12 minutes Welcome to Doomsday Scenario, my regular column on national security, geopolitics, history, and'unfortunately'the fight for democracy in the Trump era. I hope if you're coming to this online, you'll consider subscribing right here. It's easy'and free: ICE, turbocharged by $75 billion in new dollars, is in a huge rush to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 new deportation officers. The Department of Homeland Security posted nakedly Christian'white nationalist'imagery, videos and memes more in line with an invading army than a civilian law enforcement agency ' including a hearty endorsement of one of the most widely recognized images of white settler "Manifest Destiny" of all time and slogans that, for all intents and purposes, come from Neo-Nazis. In those halcyon early days, ICE kept bragging about its huge numbers of applications ' more than 50,000 individuals, many of whom applied for…...