Beware of Pushing Students Too Hard In Covid-19’s Pressure Cooker
Governor Gavin Newsom has just announced he may trim summer break for millions of K-12 students across California. His working…
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Frolicking with the Enemy in Plague Time: A Vent
To those of you who flung off social distancing, demonstrated as an armed mob for a “return to normalcy,” or…
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Combating Trump’s Pandemic of Lies With a Lesson from Vietnam
In a recent Washington Post column Dana Milbank draws provocative parallels between the official lying that cloaked our failures in…
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Survival for the Highest Bidder: Kushner’s Cure for Covid-19
An ugly little sidebar to President Trump’s coronavirus press conference last Thursday highlighted the abject cruelty at the heart of…
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Past as Prologue: Vietnam Warned Us About Trump
What do the lessons of Vietnam tell us about the wisdom of re-electing Donald Trump, this misanthrope president, nearly fifty…
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Our New Imperial Censor
The New York Times confirms this morning what I’ve warned about for years: the government’s pre-publication review system (sanctified by…
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Bolton Bottled Up: Trump Tries To Silence Newest Naysayer
The White House is threatening to block John Bolton’s prospective blockbuster memoir about what he witnessed as Trump’s national security…
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Trump’s Unlikely Advocate: My Ex-Attorney, Alan Dershowitz
Constitutional contrarian Alan Dershowitz, lately appointed to Trump’s impeachment team, used to pride himself on defending victims of executive or…
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Battling Age Discrimination in Television News
Peabody-Award-winning journalist Frank Snepp tells a harrowing tale about taking NBC/KNBC to court in 2015 after he was fired at…
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THE INTELLIGENCE FAILURE THAT LOST VIET NAM
Two ex-spies expose the failure of U.S. agencies to acknowledge or even investigate the Saigon government’s weaknesses during last years…