When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a...
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over variou...
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.
I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.
Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and p...
Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far...