Archive - Breaking the News

After the Election: Swimming in the Sea of Disinformation.

“It really is nothing new, but you are watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.” Writers and thinkers on where the denial of reality can…

Nov 16 •

Election Countdown: The Day After.

“The end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” TS Eliot, from 1942, with words for our…

Nov 6 •

Election Countdown, One More Day and a Wake-Up: Now It's Up to Us.

One thing we don't know, many things we do know. And some models for a better stage of American history that could be ahead.

Nov 4 •

October 2024

Election Countdown, Six Days to Go: Simple Questions About What’s Ahead.

Are Trump-Vance even trying to win votes anymore? Or just trying to win the count? And other imponderables.

Oct 31 •

Election Countdown, 11 Days to Go: Reasons to be Brave.

‘Clear eyes. Full heart. Can't lose.’

Oct 26 •

Election Countdown, 17 Days to Go: Ground Truths That Matter.

In the chaos of daily news, don't lose sight of: The danger of JD Vance, the naked agitprop of Fox, and the common sense of citizens.

Oct 20 •

Election Countdown, 20 Days to Go: Eyes Wide Open as We Near the End.

What we know, as voting begins. A note for the historical record.

Oct 16 •

Election Countdown, 25 Days to Go: Delivering the Message, Despite the Media.

What John Boyd's 'OODA Loop' tells us about the Harris campaign.

Oct 12 •

Election Countdown, 32 Days to Go: Two Contrasting Front Pages.

‘See things steady and see them whole.’ That's what the press is supposed to do. That's not what we are getting.

Oct 3 •

Election Countdown, 33 Days to Go: Did We Learn Anything from the VP Debate?

Yes. In ways the debaters probably did not anticipate.

Oct 2 •

Jimmy Carter's First Century.

His first book was called ‘Why Not the Best?’ His best is what he has given through all these years.

Oct 1 •

September 2024

Election Countdown, 38 Days to Go: What Is Wrong With Our Leading Paper?

A view of public life as political circus. And the ongoing damage that view does.

Sep 28 •

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