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Tucker’s dilemma

Most Americans couldn鈥檛 care less what Vladimir Putin thinks about them.Not Tucker Carlson.He鈥檚 a TV star in Moscow.That鈥檚 鈥榗ause he鈥檚 considered to be America鈥檚 voice of reason over there.He was featured at least four times in one week on Russia鈥檚 TV screens, peddling his ...

Bernstein and the art of reporting

Carl Bernstein, the <em>Washington Post</em> reporter who, in investigating the Watergate scandal, helped to bring down a corrupt presidency, was a journalistic prodigy.He entered the profession with the old <em>Washington Star</em> while ...

Partisan politics at their worst

Human suffering is very difficult to watch.Yet, as long as it exists on my television 鈥 I somehow can鈥檛 turn it off or turn away.I feel obligated to root for the victims of bloodshed at the hands of a seeming madman as if I have a stake in the madness.I do not. Not directly.Even on the ...

Trouble: misreading a foe with nukes

鈥淗istory,鈥 Barbara Tuchman concluded, 鈥渋s the unfolding of miscalculation.鈥漇ince the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the unexpectedly stiff Ukrainian resistance, questions have been asked about miscalculations made by Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. Did he miscalculate both the Ukrainian ...

Thus speaks Fox News

Fox News' Jeanine Pirro exaggerates a lot.That鈥檚 her style.A couple of weeks ago, she engaged in some hyperbole about the tense situation involving truckers along the U.S.-Canadian border.President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had discussed the truckers' blockades at key ...

Improbable reality: war in Europe

The distance from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to Sofia, Bulgaria, is 800 miles, which is the same distance, approximately, from here to Minneapolis, Minnesota.I鈥檓 telling you this for two reasons. Reason No. 1 is that Sofia was the home of Milko Kobahob. Milko was imprisoned by the Germans ...