Oligarchs, Moral Eunuchs and the Trump-Bewitched Media
In a recent mini-post, I faulted the mainstream media for allowing its fixation with whataboutism and contrived “balance” to get…
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Biden’s Pardon of Son Exposes Blindspot In Press’ Coverage of President-elect Trump
Author’s short take. Re: “President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden” – CNN. Many reporters covering this story are so…
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1933 All Over Again? Of Course Not. But…
Welcome to the future, fellow Americans: An aborning autocracy of the deaf, damned and willfully innocent, the very prospect of…
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What Happens To Free Speech Now That Any President Can Safely Trash the Constitution?
Regarding yesterday’s abominable Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity: In all the public handwringing about it, no one has addressed…
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Excess In Defense of Common Decency is Only Antidote To Trumpism
Wise observers of the American scene — like documentarian Ken Burns in his recent commencement address at Vanderbilt — urge…
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Stop Kvetching About Biden’s Afghan “Screw-Ups” – Kudos Are Owed
Author’s Note: I was never an eyewitness to the Afghan war. But as the CIA’s last intelligence analyst in Saigon,…
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Holding Trump Accountable for Abusing US Secrets: a Supreme Court Precedent Points the Way
The intelligence community and all sane citizens and allies of the United States are rightly freaking out about the implications…
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Karma Bites
Wait a minute. Who’s the greater hypocrite? The denier-now-super-spreader-in-chief who’s just been hoisted on his own poisoned petard? Or the…
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Woodward’s Way: A Devil’s Bargain
The right honorable author of the groundbreaking, invaluable new book titled “Rage” exemplifies what some of us see as an…
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For Bolton It was Always About The Cash
In a recent Washington Post op ed, the normally sage George Conway, a GOP apostate, tries to dignify John Bolton’s…