In Wartime, Trump’s National Security Clown Show Endangers Us All

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The belated dismissal of Kristi Noem – President Donald Trump’s woefully unqualified and performatively ridiculous custodian of homeland security – highlights the perils now faced by all Americans in an increasingly perilous world. Now that the United States is at war with a regime notorious for terror tactics, it is no longer possible to ignore the frightening incompetence of a government that we expect to keep us from harm. Noem cut an especially clownish figure […]

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Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.