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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 – I somehow can’t 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

“History,” Barbara Tuchman concluded, “is the unfolding of miscalculation.”Since 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’s 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’m telling you this for two reasons. Reason No. 1 is that Sofia was the home of Milko Kobahob. Milko was imprisoned by the Germans ...

Up with Snoop Dogg

Not long ago, there were millions of Trump supporters swearing they’d never watch another NFL game.In one of the many fights Donald Trump needlessly picked, he put pro football players in his crosshairs.They kneeled. Trump attacked.Trump’s dutiful supporters responded by saying they found ...