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Munasinghe: World Closer to Nuclear World War III
Nobel Laureate and climate scientist Mohan Munasinghe warned that the planet is closer to a nuclear World War III than at any time in living memory, telling…
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Trump as America’s New Top Jock
For decades, our strongest public symbols — the larger-than-life figures who gave ordinary people a little lift — came from the stadiums.
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Rosebud, Tradition, and AI: A Dialogue on Meaning
This piece continues a conversation that began as a small factual question posed to Gemini: had any critics noticed a link between Orson Welles’s Citizen…
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Resolving the Rosebud Debate: AI, Herrick and Welles — Part 1
I had an unplanned exchange with Gemini that anyone interested in art, literary history and the role of AI in learning should find useful.
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When War Becomes Spectacle: Media Covering Trump’s Iran Campaign
Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran has been presented, at times, as if it were a videogame: flashy operation names, social‑media edit reels that splice…
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Strict Schools, Sneaky Students: Why Regimentation Backfires
When the housemistress announced, “The Master is having a crackdown on jewelry,” a dozen bracelets instantly disappeared up sleeves and into shirts.
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A Veteran's Letter to the Press on Election Integrity
A few weeks before the 2020 election I wrote an open letter urging reporters covering that contest to focus on one essential question: will the public trust…
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A Veteran Journalist’s Urgent Letter to the Media
Five years ago I wrote an open letter to my old tribe of reporters urging them to treat the legitimacy of our elections as a central democratic issue.
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Mismatched Timetables: Pakistan's Challenge in US–Iran Mediation
A fragile diplomatic opening between Washington and Tehran has put Pakistan back in the delicate role of mediator — a role made difficult less by logistics…
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America's Lost Credibility: Democracy Messaging Undermined at Home
For decades the United States sold an image of itself as a defender and exemplar of democratic values.
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Dangerously Unfit Leadership on an Increasingly Fragile Planet
Scientists are warning that an El Niño event this summer is now much more likely — and, because average global temperatures are higher than during the last…
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Why Iran’s Ideology and Institutions Must Be Dismantled
When the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, the strike campaign dramatically accelerated a conflict that had been…