We can only hope that both Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin could be so smart. One can wish the two had a dialogue more or less as follows: Putin: What’s the idea of engineering the overthrow of a democratically elected government? I thought you were like pro-democracy! Obama: I have all these idealists to satisfy….
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“Unfortunate”? Well, if by “unfortunate” you mean “utterly preposterous, verging on conscious deceit,” yeah, I’d say “unfortunate”!
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has been on vacation, but now’s she back, with plenty to say about this and that, including the recent NYT profile of Washington Post editor Katy Weymouth. Maggie quotes Times reader (and former Newsweek editor) Ed Kosner as wondering “how The Times managed to publish a bouquet to…
The Post Re-Bezosed
Why did Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post? Knows God, as the saying goes. As everyone knows, Bezos and Amazon have been totally about the process; the customers sort out the content for themselves. As Felix Salmon notes, Jeff has never had to deal with “talent,” which is what journalists like to think they are….
The silence of the Post
Have you heard about the big controversy in New York? I mean, the decision of the board of trustees of City University of New York not to grant an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner, because he isn’t pro-Israel enough to suit their tastes? The controversy, and the backlash—the board says it’s reconsidering—has been huge….
Goin’ Postal—Three Things You’ll hate about the Sunday Post
There’s a lot to dislike in today’s Washington Post. The usually reliable Richard A. Clarke slides way off the rails with one of those “this didn’t happen but it could have” imaginative reconstructions of what Osama et al. might be talking about these days, what they might be talking about, that is, if Muslim terrorists…
The Apostasy of Anne, the Sadness of Sarah
Anne Applebaum’s slapdown of John McCain, which I heartily praised here, is causing some heartburn on the Right. “There have been a number of absurd reasons given recently by self-described conservatives who are endorsing the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate in his bid for the presidency, but none are quite as unconvincing as…
Keeping Posted: The Myths Keep Coming
Myth debunking has become a full-time job on the editorial pages of the Washington Post. Last Sunday, Jacob Heilbrunn debunked five myths regarding “those nefarious neocons.” On Monday, Ann Marlowe took on two myths regarding Afghanistan. Myth 1. Hamid Karzai is a good president who looks after American interests. Myth 2. The second is that…
Yes, Fani Willis is a COMPLETE trainwreck
Let’s assess the best case scenario for what went down after Georgia district attorney Fani Willis brought “wide-ranging” (and undoubtedly true) charges of criminally corrupt electoral misbehavior in the 2020 presidential election on the part of then President Donald Trump and a host of other political pluguglies: Immediately after bringing indictments for one of the…
Did Georgia district attorney Fani Willis just elect Donald Trump president? Well, it wouldn’t surprise me.
(Editor’s Note: I was writing this, the Washington Post has more: Judge in Trump Georgia case orders hearing on Fani Willis misconduct claims.) Yeah, call me a Nervous Nelli if you will, but Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who brought criminal charges against Donald Trump, and who has extracted guilty pleas from several Trump associates,…
Stop the world. I want to get off. Immediately.
If you think the news from the Middle East couldn’t get any worse, well, wait ten minutes. This once inconceivable sequence of horrifying events seems destined to rumble on until, well, until it stops. I am generally a fan of finger pointing, but this constant barrage of disasters is, naturally, spawning an orgy of outrage…