Northeast Reader

Upon the occasion of the death of George Floyd and other victims of excessive enforcement that came before, once again we find ourselves at the same point, year after year after year. I want to speak to that briefly. I find it hard not to sympathize with the rioters in Minnesota. As senseless as rioting […]

For years, especially dating back to the Clinton years and Monica Lewinski fame twenty-five years ago, Matt Drudge put out a simple news aggregation website in simple Courier font that transformed political life more than any other news organization of its time. The Drudge Report was the first site that Washington pols and even news […]

I endeavored to stay away from commentary that would require naming officials and citing fast moving events. The shelf life on these is usually about 12 hours or less, nevertheless, a few things have to be said, for future I-told-you-so’s. Obama has committed what may be a first in modern presidential history; not just staying away […]

Among the millions of voices yelling into the C-19 void, it’s hard to imagine that everything has not been said, and yet to these ears, there are a few shreds of logic that simply have not gotten much air that I can see. Although I’m sure it’s been said, herewith is a needful collection of […]

I present an amplification to some earlier thoughts re: the Coronavirus pandemic. In the first week or two or three of the crisis, there were some ways that we had unusual cooperation. I described this as a ‘quiet’. Of course, there was some dissent and of course always politics, but we all started out with […]

In deeply polarized news media, social media, and among vocal consumers of the same that form an equally visible participatory feed-back loop, I’m observing unwritten ‘rules’ of engagement that are deeply flawed. Here are a few of them: First. When a major media outlet publishes a story first (obscure outlets don’t count), they assume unto […]