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It was a profound national crisis; Begin established the Kahan Commission to determine whether Israel was responsible for the massacre.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
I have a good friend who’s one of the seven or eight main editors of a major American newspaper, and he happens to be very much opposed to U.S. policies towards Central America, and towards the arms race, as well as several other things. He tries to craft editorials which will just barely sneak through under the ideological barrier, but will sort o
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
contretemps
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
For Lehman’s treatment of Moses after the campaign was the definitive word on the Governor’s character.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Alfred Dreyfus
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world’s physical laws.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
Powell later described the presentation as one of the biggest blunders of his career, a mistake he would attribute to sloppy intelligence and wishful thinking at senior levels of the Bush administration. In reality, every word of the Zarqawi portion of the speech had been written by senior officials of the CIA after weeks of rancorous debate with W
... See moreJoby Warrick • Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
The media widely reports bogus witness accounts of Brown getting shot
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist