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Jeff Bezos throws the Washington Post under the bus
When Donald Trump became president for the first time, the editor of the Washington Post at the time, Martin Baron, said that the newspaper was “not at war but at work.” At the same time, its ultrawealthy new owner, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, seemed to embrace the newspaper’s role as one of the country’s political watchdog,…
Continue readingGiorgia Meloni — The Shapeshifter
In mid-June, Giorgia Meloni was in an exultant mood while hosting theG7 summit, a gathering of the world’s most powerful nations, in thesouthern Italian region of Apulia. After days in which she presided overmeetings speaking English, French and Spanish along with her nativeItalian, one evening she danced the pizzica – a traditional Apulian dance –twirling…
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The Trump Card, The National Law Journal May 16, 1988
Nearly thirty years ago in my early days as a reporter, I did a long story for the National Law Journal on Donald Trump’s aggressive use of litigation. Among other things, it shows his well-developed habit of stiffing contractors who work for him, recently re-reported in a fine story by USA today http://usat.ly/1TY1QLb. Re-reading this…
Continue readingThe Pope Who Tried, (The Pope and Mussolini), New York Review of Books, April 23, 2015
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer Random House, 549 pp., $32.00; $20.00 (paper) Hulton Archive/Getty Images Monsignor Francesco Borgongini-Duca, Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, Francesco Pacelli, Benito Mussolini, and Dino Grandi at the signing of the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the…
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