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The Leftie Who Came In From The Cold
After a hard-fought primary campaign, Bernie Sanders capitulated and endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton for the presidency. In the final analysis, Clinton gave up little more than lip service to...
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Trump’s Maniacal First 100 Days
Trump’s political genius is centered around his manic style. He issues one outrageous statement after another, so that the media and critics can only begin to respond to each before it gets eclipsed...
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Smooth Transition of Power
We keep hearing that Democratic officials are being polite and deferent to president-elect Donald Trump because they respect America’s tradition of smooth transitions of power. Given what Trump has...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Democrats Can Only Beat Trump By Out-Trumping Him
At a water cooler or Starbucks near you, speculating about Donald Trump’s psychological state is America’s newest cultural obsession. Is the president crazy? Or crazy like a fox? I don’t know. What I...
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How the Press Leads “The Resistance”
The Trump Administration is guilty of countless wrongdoing, including monstrous acts that no one cares about, at least not in the press. In the meantime, the media is obsessing over a meeting between...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Our Obsession with Trump Shows Authoritarianism Has Arrived
Bernie Sanders has joined the chorus of politicians and pundits who warn that the U.S. is sliding into authoritarianism under Trump. But he’s kind of wrong about how. There are indeed reasons to worry...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: No Way Would Today’s Newspapers Publish the Pentagon Papers
Steven Spielberg’s new movie “The Post” depicts a newspaper’s decision to defy the government, risk its financial health and imprisonment of its editors in order to report a hard truth and defend the...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Is Trump a Brand-New Weird Existential Threat to the...
This past week more than 300 American newspapers colluded — if the word fits… — to simultaneously publish editorials declaring themselves, contra Trump, not “the enemy of the people.” Shortly...
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Things That Were Going to Save Journalism
Since the newspapers that generate over 90% of the news began tanking in the 1990s, we have repeatedly been told that some magic bullet, usually technological but not always, was going to save the...
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The New York Times Called a Famous Cartoonist an Anti-Semite. Repeatedly....
The cartoon by António Moreira Antunes that prompted the perpetual ban on political art in the New York Times. Earlier this year the Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antunes drew one...
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