PLUS: My Scripps News "Two-Minute Warning" for this past week | Continue reading
Warsaw’s Old Town is testament to the human spirit and its genius | Continue reading
PLUS: New documentary "Against All Enemies" explores how veterans turn to domestic extremism | Continue reading
PLUS: This past week's commentaries | Continue reading
I’m thrilled to announce that for our next live conversation I will be joined by my fellow Substack writer Steven Beschloss. Steven is the author of the must-read America, Americaon politics and society, democracy and justice. He is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker … | Continue reading
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell imagined a world in which there were no contradictions or hypocrisies because the party did not permit them. In fact, the party said such things don’t exist. This is has been a victorious week for the truth in … | Continue reading
Donald Trump, the same president who used tear gas to clear a square so that he could pose for a picture in front of a church and hold up a bible, is now dabbling again in religion. This Holy Week, he's pushing a $60 “Make America Pray Again” bible that you can buy for yourself. … | Continue reading
PLUS: Remembering Joe Lieberman | Continue reading
Ronna McDaniel is not a victim. She is among the most noxious public liars of this low era. She disgraced herself during the commission of a coup against the legitimate government of the people of the United States. She lied about the results of an election thousands of times, an … | Continue reading
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit down with the legendary Katie Couric. We discussed how news organizations might better hold politicians accountable in the age of Trump, and what Ronna McDaniel's hiring means for NBC News. We also talked about how John McCain would navigat … | Continue reading
PLUS: My reaction to NBC's Chuck Todd slamming his own network over controversial hire | Continue reading
PLUS: The search for balance can never lead to erasure of reality | Continue reading
CNN’s excellent media reporter Oliver Darcy’s take around an important and electrifying moment on “Meet the Press” didn’t read quite right to me. The compass-bearing was off by a few degrees by my estimation. Here is what I saw. Chuck Todd defended the NBC newsroom and every jour … | Continue reading
I’ve had a lot to say about NBC News’ disgraceful decision to hire Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor. I watched Kristen Welker’s hard news interview with the former RNC chair on today’s edition of “Meet the Press,” and here is my reaction to it (I have a lot to say about it to … | Continue reading
Soon, every detail around what happened inside the executive suites at NBC/MSNBC around the hiring, backlash and disappearance of Ronna McDaniel from MSNBC before she could tell her first lie, will be known. The scramble to be seen as the most defiant and impactful resistor again … | Continue reading
PLUS: How President Bush could influence the 2024 election | Continue reading
The journalism disgrace at NBC/MSNBC is historic. Do not doubt that. The hiring of a fascist, Ronna McDaniel, who is an election denier and serial liar who conspired to overthrow democracy in America is as cynical and corrupt as it gets. Here is an excerpt from a speech by Edward … | Continue reading
I can’t stop thinking about Tom Brokaw and the late Tim Russert in the aftermath of the astounding decision by NBC News and MSNBC to hire former RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel as an analyst. Of course, it is something that would never have happened if either man was still a … | Continue reading
PLUS: This past week's commentaries | Continue reading
My conversation with Faiz Shakir, co-founder of More Perfect Union | Continue reading
Donald Trump is a disgrace of staggering dimensions, but if there were to be a single quality in his Mount Everest of character deficits that render him utterly unfit to be president of the United States it is his cruelty. Cruelty and power are a terrible combination. When they c … | Continue reading
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I’ve been thinking about the essay published in the venerable The Atlantic by Tom Nichols around his great grief for the loss of a world that could have been, and for many, was visible, tangible and irreversible. Nichols is correct about its being gone forever. What lies ahead is … | Continue reading
As you have seen, I have begun to do video commentaries over the past few weeks. Sometimes they will accompany an essay. Other times, I may just post a video without an associated essay (like today). When I began The Warning last summer, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to sustai … | Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We celebrate him today in America. He is world famous, but he is indisputably one of us. He was an American. He was a citizen like you and me. He is an American founding father like Washington. … | Continue reading
Thanks to everyone for sharing your spectacular wildlife photos! There is so much photographic talent across this great community. Let’s keep th… | Continue reading
Three years ago I sat down with PBS ‘Frontline’ and talked about the Trump era and how it came to be. If you’re interested, here is the link to the hour-long interview. I do my best to explain why the craziest people in Washington, DC, are given the overwhelming amount of attenti … | Continue reading
The late Christopher Hitchens observed a recurrent pattern regarding the absolute certainty of the most righteous among us often being the most predictable as well. He said the following in his memoir Hitch-22: “Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartla … | Continue reading
The bilateral relationship between the governments of the United States of America and Mexico is long, complicated and infinitely complex. The human ties between Mexicans and Americans is familial, inexorable and deep. Our histories are deeply linked politically, culturally and e … | Continue reading
This is a story about a man named Sam. He was known for his integrity. Early in his career, a wealthy businessman delivered a beautiful horse to his farm seeking favor. No one was looking, and no one would have ever known had he kept it. He sent the horse back. He was a man who c … | Continue reading
There are heroes and cowards all around us every day. Each of us carries the DNA for heroism and cowardice. Each of us has the capacity to rise to the occasion, as each has the capacity to shirk duty and obligation. Courage comes in many forms. Cowardice is singular. | Continue reading
When the Artemis rocket, the most powerful in history, thundered to life on launch pad 39 A at the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida it was aimed at the moon. During the next years, Artemis rockets will carry American astronauts to the Moon and Mars. The first black America … | Continue reading