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A Brief Final 9/11 Anniversary Thought
I’m locked out of my laptop and Apple seems in no great hurry to help me get back in so this week's newsletter will be brief because I find typing on my phone to be torture.
This is a screenshot of this morning's NY Times report on yesterd...
9/11 “This Changes Everything”or Did It?
At the end of that day, the BBC World Service program Newshour caught up with me at my hotel in Boston. “This changes everything,” I told the presenter.
Now I’m not so sure.
Looking for the first cause in any historical event — the inci...
Kurdistan: I Love You
Of all the places I’ve reported from, Kurdistan is the one that really got under my skin. Thirty years ago this week I made my first trip there.
Rawanduz Gorge in Iraqi Kurdistan looking east towards Iran ©Michael Goldfarb, 2003
The reaso...
A Dialogue With Bill Gates
Microsoft founder Bill Gates published this brief essay yesterday. If I could interview him these are the points I’d like to take up.
The essay begins with a lede paragraph in boldface placed in a box:
The transition to the AI era will...
Dog Daze Afternoon
In the news business August has the reputation of being the silly season. Everyone is away grabbing some holiday time, no one is paying attention, events that would never be brought up for discussion in the morning news conference suddenly...
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