Howard French

Granted, the NYT showed the way in such matters, but not (yet) as a substitute for a broad menu of reporting.

Watching the decline of the Washington Post day by day, as the front page is given over to endless fluff about weather, recipes, aging, and other ephemera.

Trump Says the Iran War Is Nearly Won but Israel Has Other Ideas Israel is sticking with its goal of creating the conditions for regime change in Tehran.

Reading. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

It's basically this writer's assignment now, week after week, to look for opportunities to take shots like this.

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy

"The study...would have looked at the overall health effects of giving hepatitis B vaccines by only vaccinating half of the newborns in the study at birth despite an 18% prevalence rate in adults of the illness.."
Monstrous, as ever.
@melodyschreiber.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Malacca Strait. I wrote a book about it: Everything Under the Heavens.

Exclusive | Exxon Mobil Plans to Move Its Legal Home to Texas From New Jersey The company, incorporated in New Jersey since 1882, plans to ask shareholders to vote on a proposal to redomicile, as it joins other companies seeking a more business-friendly environment.

Check your old narratives. From Texas to New Jersey in pursuit of a better locale for business. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Iran had the greatest great navy that nobody has ever seen before.

Fritz down.

Opinion | Trump Is Making Jimmy Carter’s Mistake on Iran and Oil

It takes this piece a little too long to get around to it, but when it finally makes its point, bam. (See the excerpt that follows.) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Exclusive | Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales Powerus says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone technology to sell to the U.S. military.

In broad daylight. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

China said it ended poverty. Did it? The country has lifted more than 700mn people out of indigence, but some doubt Xi Jinping’s claim that the mission is complete

Reading. www.ft.com/content/ab07... China said it ended poverty. Did it?

“One benefit enjoyed by the very powerful has always been exemption from the critical standards that they use to assess others.”

Oh, does this sentence from @hofrench.bsky.social's latest essay, “The Second Emancipation” ring truer than ever now.

Why do airlines hate basic economy passengers? Major airlines are cutting frequent-flier miles for basic economy passengers, with United, American and Delta implementing changes.

Reading. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

Terrific reporting here. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

Terrific reporting here. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs Sweeping layoffs at Voice of America made by Trump appointee Kari Lake were declared void by a federal judge, who said she served unlawfully.

Lawless. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

State Department Bypasses Congress to Send Israel More Than 20,000 Bombs

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign.

Reading. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Troops Mass as Landlocked Ethiopia Chases Access to the Sea Decades after it lost its coast to Eritrea, the country has moved forces close to the border region—raising fears of another civil war with nearby rebels.

Interesting read. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

America Braces for Oil Shock as Iran War Throttles Supply U.S. oil prices this week skyrocketed at their fastest pace on record.

I've always said Trump was a creature stuck in the 70s and 80s. Fox was staining mightily today to say that oil shocks are no big deal. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Thinking of Du Bois’s open letter to Nkrumah. Nearly seven decades on, as empire’s missiles strike Ghanaian peacekeepers in Lebanon, as neocolonialism continues its plunder nearly everywhere, may we not forget freedom, peace, and socialism.

Reap what you sow.

So immigrants were “taking our jobs”…

but now fewer immigrants means fewer jobs?

The math on their propaganda never works.

Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Brent crude tops $90 after gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries

They had to invent a word for this kind of mess during the Second World War: "snafu." (Situation normal, all fuc*ed up.) www.ft.com/content/be12... Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’

“ … there is a new African in the world, that new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the Black Man is capable of managing his own affairs.”

“The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” — Kwame Nkrumah