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On Monday, three days after the publication of an article detailing allegations of sexual harassment against Mr. Moonves … CBS said in a statement that its board was ‘in the process of selecting outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation.’ … The company had announced the planned investigation on Friday, hours after The New Yorker… Read more.
Trumpian newspeak President Trump issued his “most essential command” on Tuesday during a speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He commanded, Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening. (CNN, July 25, 2018) In other words, we all… Read more.
If you’re a black man, you are three times more likely to be killed by police than a white man, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health. … There’s not a single place in the U.S. where the risk of a black man getting killed by police is less than double that of a white… Read more.
China has been leveraging its economic power on the world stage for years. Now it’s beginning to do the same with its growing military power — as its aggressive, uncontested moves in the South China Sea attest. More to the point, China’s disregard for international criticism has grown in direct proportion to its economic and… Read more.
Or, as Britain’s most notorious politician, Boris Johnson, warns, ‘volunteering for economic vassalage’? Here is the Trumpian way President Donald Trump thanked Prime Minister Theresa May for orchestrating his recent cloak-and-dagger visit to the UK: Mr. Trump second-guessed Mrs. May’s handling of the main issue on her plate: how Britain should cut ties to the… Read more.
Last weekend, Serena Williams won unprecedented praise despite coming up short at Wimbledon. It was her second Grand Slam tournament after giving birth last September. But I found the praise a curious thing, which compelled this allusion to Tiger Woods: Like Woods, Williams could become resigned to playing on her laurels, continually pleasing fans and… Read more.
The few A-list advisers Trump appointed to his cabinet represented the one redeeming feature of his presidency at the outset. The prevailing wisdom was that the triumvirate of James Mattis at Defense, Rex Tillerson at State, and H.R. McMaster at National Security would provide the kind of steadiness for Trump’s White House that training wheels… Read more.
But why travel anywhere when you (and especially your kids) can enjoy mobile devices right there … at home: #staycation? Read more.
In “Trump, May, Macron: Don’t Bomb Syria. Withdraw World Cup from Russia!,” April 11, 2018, I pledged to boycott this World Cup. I honored that pledge. But I cannot resist sharing the following about France’s 4-2 victory over Croatia’s in Sunday’s final match: Immigrants, sons of immigrants and grandsons of immigrants bonded together with scions… Read more.
At a joint press conference today, President Trump doubled down on his belief in President Putin’s denial that Russia launched cyberattacks on the 2016 US presidential election. This, despite his own intelligence agencies — the CIA, FBI, and NSA — saying Russia did. Not to mention the Mueller investigation, which indicted 12 Russian agents for… Read more.
