By Marilyn Berger. The New York Times.
Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding generation, who did more than anyone to build up his country’s formidable military might, then worked as hard to establish a lasting … Read more »
Sympathy for the Donald. The New York Times – By Frank Bruni.
Go ahead and laugh at Donald Trump’s claims that he was foiled by a finicky microphone on Monday night, but I can relate. When I write a bad … Read more »
By Thomas Friedman – The New York Times.
My reaction to the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate can be summarized with one word: “How?”
How in the world do we put a man in the Oval Office who thinks NATO is … Read more »
By Jessica Bennett – The New York Times.
When it was all over, the score went something like this:
Donald Trump: 40. Hillary Clinton: 1.
That was my rough calculation anyway, of the times that Mr. Trump interrupted Mrs. Clinton, … Read more »
All politicians bend the truth to fit their purposes, including Hillary Clinton. But Donald J. Trump has unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies in the general
By Charles M. Blow – The New York Times.
Last week, after I delivered a speech at the impressive campus of Morgan State University, a historically black college in northeast Baltimore, a woman approached the mike during the question-and-answer period … Read more »
By Gail Collins – The New York Times.
Wow. Donald Trump says President Obama was born here. What a concession. No wonder he’s trending up in the polls.
How did we get to this place, people? The big story of … Read more »
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.
Only serious nerds like me eagerly await the annual Census Bureau reports on income, poverty and health insurance. But the just-released reports on 2015 justified the anticipation.
We expected good news; but … Read more »
I just got done watching some of the former members of the military support Trump before he gave his five second admission that President Obama was born in the U.S. He gave more time to promoting his hotel than his … Read more »
One of the mental traps that we all fall into, journalists included, is to perceive politics through narratives.
President Gerald Ford had been a star football player, yet somehow we in the media developed a narrative of him as a … Read more »
