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The New York Times has spent the past week marking the 50th anniversary of its publication of the Pentagon Papers. Those documents exposed the lies the US government repeatedly told the American people about the Vietnam War. Here is an excerpt from a commemorative report on June 9: __________ Daniel Ellsberg, an analyst on the… Read more.
Episode 36: Yale Prof Timothy Snyder Predicts a Republican Electoral Coup. I Disagree. Related commentaries: tribalism… Listen.
Dozens of Apple employees have written a letter signaling their frustration with a policy asking them to return to the office for three days a week from September. … The letter began by addressing the growing concern that Apple’s location-flexible work policy, and the messaging around it, have already forced some of the staff to… Read more.
Most American commentators repeatedly bemoaned what they feared was the irreparable reputational damage former President Trump was costing America with, among other things, his xenophobic “America First” policies. And he hardly allayed their fears by going through every trip abroad like a bull through a china shop. I was more sanguine. For example, it’s arguable… Read more.
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is easily the top trending topic in Washington these days. And he would clearly have it no other way. In fact, he has framed his vote as so critical to Biden’s progressive agenda that Democrats of all stripes are courting him. Here, for example, is how CBS News reported… Read more.
Occasionally I have cause to reprise a commentary in full with relatively little explanation. This is one of those occasions. It stems from the following headline in the June 3 edition of The Independent: Trump condos going for bargain prices because no one wants to live in them More to the point, that report includes… Read more.
Episode 35: And a Rehabbed Tiger Will Be an Even Older Champion… Related commentaries: Tiger… Get well, Tiger… Listen.
But it’s only a matter of time before suburbia-whipped city dwellers return with tails between their legs. Read more.
It was curious, to put it charitably, that Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, was making news lately more for her million-dollar properties than for her political activism. This is why her resignation this week came as no surprise. USA Today reported on her “golden parachute” from the front lines of the ongoing fight… Read more.
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 was arguably the worst race massacre in US history. Yet it was so effectively whitewashed from history books that even eminent political commentators are confessing ignorance about it today. Try as I might, I cannot recall even a passing reference to it during my school days – not even… Read more.
