[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried...
Free Speech Is Killing Us
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried...
Trump Loves Xi’s Military Parades. They Don’t Give the Full Picture.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump finally got to see the kind of military parade he longed for. Unfortunately for him, it was in Beijing, not Washington. You will recall that in 2018, Trump directed the Pentagon to put on a lavish show of arms to demonstrate America’s might....
Annexing the Jordan Valley Doesn’t Make Security Sense
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan included two clauses whose security importance is as great and perhaps greater than the demilitarization of the Sinai Peninsula in the peace treaty with Egypt. These clauses turn Kahol Lavan chairman MK Benny Gantz’s intention and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
An Open Letter to John Kasich: Please Challenge Trump
[aggregation-styles] Post Alley Subscription Former Ohio governor John Kasich has been the most prominent and consistent Republican critic of Donald Trump, but he’s shying away from the necessary (and patriotic) mission of a lifetime–challenging Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination. He’s told his top political staff to stop planning for...
Why Are Israel's Top Holocaust Scholars So Willing to Deny This Genocide?
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The Potocari memorial center sits amidst lush countryside and thickly forested hills. On a hot summer’s day, the scent of cut grass and clover drifts over the graveyard where thousands of plain white tombstones stretch out into the distance. Each year on July 11, the memorial day for...
Looks Like Kamala Harris Isn’t a Shoo-in to Win California’s Primary After All
[aggregation-styles] The Los Angeles Times Subscription SACRAMENTO — OK, I admit it: A column I wrote three months ago was a real loser. That’s because I predicted California Sen. Kamala Harris would be a big winner in her own state’s presidential primary. But two statewide polls show her falling far...
Keep It Steady and Cool With Iran, America
[aggregation-styles] National Review Subscription Expect more desperate Iranian efforts to prompt a U.S. military response in the Persian Gulf. Trump’s sanctions have cut off 90 percent of Iran’s oil revenues. Soon Tehran’s shattered economy will be followed by more pent-up domestic unrest of the sort that Barack Obama ignored in...
Opinion: Trump and Money Are Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability for Khashoggi’s Killing
[aggregation-styles] The Los Angeles Times Subscription Following the brutal killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, one year ago, the Saudi government became something of a toxic commodity in American politics. Several high-profile lobbying and public relations firms dropped the...
Why California Keeps Making Homelessness Worse
[aggregation-styles] Forbes On Tuesday, fifteen officials from the White House toured Skid Row in Los Angeles with the head of a local homeless shelter. “Four or five of them were from the Environmental Protection Agency,” Rev. Andy Bales of Union Mission church told me. “That’s because human waste flows into...









