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I warned disgraced Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi that the generals she courted would never let her roam free. This, especially because she envisioned herself becoming a de-facto Mother Teresa of politics, meddling with glorified serenity while remaining above it all. In fact, here is how I opened the latest in a series… Read more.
For the past 16 years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been the most powerful woman in the world. Yet the only thing most people outside Germany know about her impressive rule is what they saw of her interaction with the world’s most powerful men. And even then, three viral images probably account for much of… Read more.
Episode 57: She Sounds Better, but New Album Sales Are Down Nearly 75%… Related commentaries: Anderson Paak… Listen.
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Julian Assange is more of an outlaw than even Donald J. Trump when it comes to gaming the law. The manifest absurdity is that Assange has been able to avoid extradition – from a prison in the United Kingdom – based on the claim that he might be treated unfairly in a prison in the… Read more.
If you tune in to CNN or MSNBC at the top of any hour, anchors and commentators will probably be decrying the latest outrage some Republican congressman has incited. But then at the bottom of that hour, without any hint of self-awareness or irony, those same anchors and commentators will be questioning the failure of… Read more.
If I got a dollar every time someone told me they saw a commentator on TV parroting something I wrote in one of my commentaries, I’d be very rich indeed. I’ve seen this phenomenon myself. As it happens, I felt moved to write about one such occasion just yesterday in “Writer Paul Auster Says Tea… Read more.
Most talk shows these days amount to little more than a performative farce of people spewing hackneyed talking points at each other. That’s why the BBC’s HARDtalk stands out like the proverbial lighthouse in a storm. I watch it religiously. Granted, I’m usually multitasking. But my ears perked up yesterday when host Stephen Sackur and… Read more.
Episode 56: And, in Tucker Carlson and Lara Logan, This Wizard of Trumpism Is Just Creating New Monsters… Related commentaries: Murdoch… Trumpism… Listen.
It seems everyone in Washington was alarmed at the way arguments on Mississippi’s anti-abortion law played out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. This, because the Republican-appointed justices kept signaling their intent to betray legal precedent, even common sense, to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that granted abortion rights. Nicole Wallace was communications… Read more.
