Monday, November 20, 2017

I Want You to Not Want Me

Putin Clever At Sowing Fear, Confusion, Newsday, November 20, 2017. "There is no mystery about what Vladimir Putin’s Russia seeks to achieve through its propaganda. It doesn’t want to make you love Russia. It wants to make you distrust America. And thanks to the panic about Russia’s influence in the 2016 election, it’s enjoying brilliant success."

Monday, November 6, 2017

One More Time . . .

A Mistake to Conflate Trump, Brexit, Newsday, November 6, 2017. "Americans have never fully grasped why Brexit — Britain’s exit from the European Union — matters to them. That’s made it easy for the EU’s friends to lump Brexit together with President Donald Trump as symbols of all that’s wrong with the West today. The truth is that Brexit shows what’s right with it."