I Actually Have Great Hopes

On Facebook, A Lie Can Seem As Convincing To Some As An Article From Spiegel Or The Washington Post. That's A Problem. I Can Then Like It And Like It Again And Start Creating My Own Media Universe, Both For Me And For My Friends, And So We Become More And More Fenced Off From One Another.

I'm Interested In Russian Language, Culture, History... And I Lived There, For Four Years, As A Reporter For The Washington Post And Have Visited Many Times Since.

You Are Losing Out Because Mexican Rapists Are Taking Your Job.

There Are Systemic, Painful Problems Of Globalization And De-industrialization That Cannot Be Solved With A Phone Call Or A Tweet Or An Angry Speech Or Trying To Isolate The Press And The First Amendment. Sooner Or Later, The Donald Trump Show, Which Is A Projection Of Strength And Authority, Will Have To Deliver To His Voters. And If He Doesn't, In Very Real Terms, If He Can't Supersede A Situation Where A President Cut The Unemployment Rate In Half, If He Can't Do Better, If He Can't Open Factories And All The Rest That He's Promised, Then I Think He's In Trouble.

A.j. Liebling, One Of My Heroes, Used To Say That He Could Write Better Than Anyone Who Wrote Faster, And Faster Than Anyone Who Could Write Better. I'm One Nine-hundredth As Good As Liebling, But That Principle May Slightly Apply.