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Op-Ed columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, . Author: "Year of Voting Dangerously," "Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk," and “Are Men Necessary?”

Washington, DC
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Joined July 2009
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    Sep 18

    In Opinion "Sexism exists. But we shouldn’t reorient our society so that people can simply wrap themselves in an identity cloak when identity is not the issue," writes.

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    Sep 18

    The excellent ⁦⁩ on the virtues of just owning it — and not wrapping yourself “in an identity cloak when identity is not the issue.” “Virtue,” she writes, “should not be defined by who you are, putting you beyond reproach.”

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    Sep 18

    “She should have adopted the philosophy of another frequent guest of that gala, Kate Moss: never complain, never explain.” amen, sister. via ⁦⁩

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    Sep 18

    “That brings us to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She said her ‘Tax the Rich’ turn at the Met gala ‘punctured the 4th wall of excess and spectacle.’ Sure, whatever.” ⁩ on the virtues of just owning it.

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  5. Sep 18

    When in doubt, Kate Moss it.

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    Sep 17
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    Why is this his responsibility and not yours to know how journalism works?

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    Sep 11

    "In the ramp-up to the Iraq war, Washington was a veritable bro-fest, men at the top of government and journalism egging on the war or turning a willful blind eye to the weak casus belli," recalls . 

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    Sep 4

    Fiery - Biden had a few bad weeks in Afghanistan but Bush & Cheney caused decades of them - and The Blob wants more via

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  9. Sep 4

    America is reeling backward, strangled by the past.

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    Aug 28

    So great. Pictures by ⁦⁩. Words by ⁦⁩. Newsroom by ⁦⁩

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    Aug 28

    Stunning photos of NYT’s empty newsroom by Kathy Ryan, with copy by . Wow. Just wow.

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    Aug 28

    “I love newsrooms. They are some of the most stimulating rooms in the world. It’s why I became a journalist, to be part of that vertiginous chaos, to scramble chasing stories on deadline with a bunch of hard-boiled hacks.”

    The New York Times, a noir ghost ship.
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  13. Aug 28

    The New York Times, a noir ghost ship.

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    Aug 28

    "There is something profoundly sad about a newsroom without noise or people," writes  in an essay with photographs by .

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    Aug 22

    Got to love : “Wynken, Blynken and Nod, as some in military circles are derisively calling Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken and Biden, consider themselves foreign affairs savants. Yet even Democrats can’t defend them …”

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    Aug 22

    Arrogant miscalculation, macho hubris, and a fatally bungled exit, ⁦⁩

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    Aug 21

    Delusions about Afghanistan go back to antiquity. Think of Genghis Khan, Tamberlane, and Babur the first Mogul emperor, who is buried in Kabul. His beautiful tomb is the best possible reminder of Ozymandian arrogance.

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    Aug 21

    I strongly recommend reading this essay, inspired by Yeats “The Second Coming.”

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  19. Aug 21

    Delusions about Afghanistan go back to antiquity. Think of Genghis Khan, Tamberlane, and Babur the first Mogul emperor, who is buried in Kabul. His beautiful tomb is the best possible reminder of Ozymandian arrogance.

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  20. Aug 21

    The idea that we were going to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into mini-mes of Jeffersonian democracy was always an arrogant miscalculation, driven by macho hubris, not national security.

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