AUSTIN, Texas -- Leap I lightly, with the grace of a gazelle, over such mundane news items as indictments at the White House and Supreme Court nominations. All the better to continue my crusade to focus attention not on what's wrong, but...
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31 October 2005
A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by
the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq. Yet the same
news organizations are bypassing their own key roles in the marketing
of those lies. A case in point is...
31 October 2005
We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin
Luther King. Day, I was interviewed on CNN. So was Rosa Parks, by phone from
Los Angeles. "We're very honored to have her," said the host. "Rosa Parks
was the woman...
30 October 2005
The wheels are falling off. The carriage is headed towards a cliff. The passengers are beginning only beginning to get scared. And where is the driver? Or in our case, where is the president? He is absent without leave, once more leaving...
25 October 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- I am writing about the most extraordinary book by the most extraordinary woman, and I would have interviewed her at length, except she's going to be arrested if she ever sets foot back in our home state.
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25 October 2005
Many politicians and pundits have told us that “Iraq is not Vietnam.”
Certainly, any competent geographer would agree.
Substantively, the histories of Iraq and Vietnam are very different. And the dynamics of U.S. military...
Substantively, the histories of Iraq and Vietnam are very different. And the dynamics of U.S. military...
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