Eighteen months from now, citizens will vote for president. If the
2004 campaign is anything like the last one, the election returns will
mark the culmination of a depressing media spectacle.
For news watchers, the...
For news watchers, the...
29 April 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- The sour joke is: "Of course we know the Iraqis
have weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts." At this point, the
administration would probably be delighted if it could find the WMDs the
Reagan...
24 April 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- Boy, there is no shortage of creatively
terrible ideas from the Republican Party these days. Those folks are just
full of notions about how to make people's lives worse -- one horrible idea
after another bursting out like...
15 April 2003
With U.S. troops occupying Iraq and the Bush administration making
bellicose noises about Syria, let's consider some rarely mentioned words
from the most revered writer in American history.
Mark Twain was painfully...
Mark Twain was painfully...
11 April 2003
In times of war, journalists can serve as vital witnesses for the
people of the world. So it's especially sinister when governments take
aim at reporters and photographers.
A few weeks ago, when I was talking with...
A few weeks ago, when I was talking with...
08 April 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- Oh good. It looks as though we're going to have
as big a fight over postwar plans for Iraq as we did over the war itself.
Just what we need, more of everybody being at everybody else's throat.
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