The King's Necktie
Dispatches from the American twilight. A progressive view on politics, culture, yada yada yada, from a former US military officer.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 274 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Red Splotches in Bluest Brooklyn
How many Trump supporters are in your neighborhood?
I live in a deeply Democratic part of Brooklyn—a part as blue as the deepest ocean, as Sinatra’s eyes, or as Toni Morrison’s debut novel.
Journey to the End of the Night
In January 2025, when The Felon Formerly Known as Donald Trump was about to raise his freakishly small right hand to be inaugurated into his second term as (not a typo) President of the United States, I published an essay in this blog calle...
Is Elon Trying to Steal the Midterms?
Elon Musk has been much in these pages lately, and not because I enjoy writing about him any more than I’ve enjoyed writing about a human colostomy bag like Donald Trump constantly for the last 10 years. But unfortunately, I’m forced to dev...
American Scoundrel: A Legacy
Further thoughts on Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, and how the hell we got here, following my interview with Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark last week.
Last week’s edition of The King’s Necktie featured my recent interview with Kai Bird and Susan Gol...
Exhuming McCarthy: Kai Bird & Susan Goldmark on Roy Cohn
If you were a novelist and invented a character like Roy Cohn, every publisher in town would throw your manuscript out the window. It simply beggars fiction. A villain straight from Central Casting who was smack at the center of some of the...
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Formerly a US Army infantry and intelligence officer, Robert Edwards is the author of RESISTING THE RIGHT; co-director of the feature documentary DEATH & TAXES; and writer/director of LAND OF THE BLIND starring Ralph Fiennes & Donald Sutherland.
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