My column: How to Think About Trumpโs War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...
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๐ฐ@ WAPO before Bezos๐๏ธ Nixon wouldโve hosted a block party if I left DC ๐๏ธ ๐๏ธFrank Sinatra & I did not get along ๐ Journalist ๐๏ธ born in Harlan Countyโ๏ธKentucky๐๐ชฆA sprite who rose from her grave after๐ฉhit the fan๐บ๐ธ
My column: How to Think About Trumpโs War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...
My editor rolling over in his ๐ชฆ
Trump & his billionaire buddies have exhausted Americans' most natural resource: virtue & civility
A man who launched his career by creating an online bookstore which helped kept our citizenry informed, will begin his trajectory downward by shrinking the information market and limiting Americans' access to news๐ฐ He knows how to economize it, but he values his bottom line more than his country ๐บ๐ธ
"In a self-valuing democracy, the only defensible stance is to call for release of all remaining files." My column on why the latest Epstein dump gives America the opposite of closure. as.ft.com/r/9553eceb-2...
"Real liberty ๐ฝ is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy๐บ๐ธ, but in moderate governments." - Alexander Hamilton ๐
โฌ๏ธThis path simply isn't the way to go.
๐Since the Civil War, โ๏ธKentucky is where ๐บ๐ธ's ideological ๐rubber hits the ๐ฃ๏ธroad. As '28 nears, all ๐ will be on one of the most popular Democratic governors in ๐บ๐ธ, Gov. Andy Beshear. A top tier Biden donor said Gov. Beshear wouldโve won the presidential nomination if the '24 DNC had been brokered๐ฎโณโฑ๏ธ๐ฑ
Trumpโs massive and myriad power grabs, visualized and explained
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If #DNC had been brokered, @andybeshearky.bsky.social may have won. Our current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue echoes ๐๏ธ expert Howard Suberโs words, โThe outsider becomes the insiderโฆ it goes back to Shakespeare, couldnโt be a more classic dramatic structure.โ
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Really working their way through the ol' First Amendment.
"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell๐ช๐บ๐ธ
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE
"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell๐ช๐บ๐ธ
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE
"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell๐ช๐บ๐ธ
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE
"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell๐ช๐บ๐ธ
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE
"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell๐ช๐บ๐ธ
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE
๐๐๏ธCan't help but be reminded of a line from "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold"๐ฌ๏ธ
๐๐๏ธCan't help but be reminded of a line from "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold"๐ฌ๏ธ
๐บ๐ธAmericans are losing their ability to evaluate & verify info. Howard Bloom's warning: โIf as a nation, we stop thinking well, someday we will yet cease to be a democracy. It really matters, reading the best that has been written, the best that has been thought ever.โ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oF...