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Seymour HershPearls and Irritations |
Frustration escalates for the the lame duck president. There is a scene early on in Nathanael West’s satirical 1933 novella Miss Lonelyhearts...
Biden’s decline has been known to friends and insiders for months. Readers of this column know that President Joe Biden’s drift into blankness...
What a twenty-five-year-old memo by Daniel Ellsberg says about the past failures of Lyndon Johnson and the current horrors of Benjamin Netanyahu. ...
Iran has never had a nuclear bomb—why does Israel insist that it’s an imminent threat? It remains a classic moment in United Nations history....
The sabotage in the Baltic Sea was the result of a long-standing US policy of driving a wedge between Russia and Western Europe. Thursday marks one...
‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls. I left the New York Times in 1979, after many good stories and some...