The War On Terrorism Was A Bait

To Own The Dominant, Or Only, Newspaper In A Mid-sized American City Was, For Many Decades, A Kind Of License To Print Money. In The Internet Age, However, No One Has Figured Out How To Rescue The Newspaper In The United States Or Abroad.

America's Great Newspapers Have Staffs That Range From 50 Percent To 70 Percent Of What They Were Just A Few Years Ago.

For The Past Eight Years, The Right Has Been Better At Working The Refs. Now The Left Is Learning How To Play The Game.

One Of The Many, Many Salutary Aspects Of Barack Obama's Impending Presidential Nomination Is The Sea Change His Victory Marks In The Battle For The Mind-set Of The American Foreign Policy Establishment.

Americans Continue To Suffer From A Notoriously Short Attention Span. They Get Mad As Hell With Reasonable Frequency, But Quickly Return To Their Families And Sitcoms. Meanwhile, The Corporate Lobbies Stay Right Where They Are, Outlasting All The Populist Hysteria.