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It was a day of miracles and wonders. That much I remember very clearly. One did not need the brainpower of a scientist or the erudition of a philosopher to know it. I was just an eight-year-old boy gazing through a bedroom window at a crescent moon,...
DATE: Jul 17, 2019
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I saw the future of political reporting half a dozen years ago, and I have been hoping to unsee it ever since.
In the final week of August 2012, after Tropical Storm Isaac delivered a scouring rain to Florida’s Gulf Coast, an army of scribes and pund...
DATE: Jan 28, 2019
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The crisis of the Catholic Church is not a matter for Catholics only.
Love it or hate it — or anywhere in between — this is one of the most important, influential institutions in world history, with boots on the ground in every corner of the world. I...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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Lately, I can’t shake the image of a young man on a battlefield in France or the South Pacific. It’s 1944. He’s dying — one more incremental death amid the worst carnage the world has ever seen. What if I told you that experts’ estimates of the death...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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Journalists, of all people, should understand the First Amendment. But, no. Too many of us appear to believe that reporters have an exalted, protected status in the law. Nothing exposes that error like a government leak hunt.
The latest example invol...
DATE: Jun 28, 2018
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Addiction compels you to chase a high that only makes you feel worse; it reduces you to a lesser version of yourself. And you cannot stop because deep down you don’t really want to change.
Too many Americans (Bermudians) are controversy junkies.
Almo...
DATE: Oct 05, 2017
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