Almost as appalling as President Biden’s debate performance are the efforts of his loyalists to pretend that what 50 million viewers saw and heard didn’t happen or didn’t really matter. What has unfolded in the…
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Red-white-and-blue chauvinism is running wild. Yet there are real diplomatic alternatives to the collision course for war. Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the…
A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration…
One of the worst things about today’s ultramodern systems of communication is hiding in plain sight: They waste our time. Sure, gizmos like computers and cellphones and pagers can be real time-savers. But what’s less…
“If liberty means anything at all,” George Orwell wrote, “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” From all indications, the gatekeepers for big media in the United States…
A specter is haunting America — the specter of populism. Now that Patrick Buchanan has left the Republican fold to seek the Reform Party's presidential nomination, a lot of journalists will be analyzing his denunciations…
How important is the pain of the past? Should people strive to confront it or try to forget it? Such questions routinely underlie news stories and media debates. Depending on the spin, history can seem…