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Words For the Wise

Michael Balter
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Stop me if you have already heard about this, but I am reading “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan—a great experience for those who are masochistic enough to want to relive al...

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Musk, the movie.

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Co-director of “NAZA” announces film will be made freely available beginning in November.

I’m going to assume that by now most or all readers of “Words for the Wise” are aware of this film from Israel which provides evidence, from interviews with Israeli officers, of the systematic killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

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We’ll always have Paris...

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I was 39 years old when I made my first trip to Europe. Poverty was the main reason it took me so long, an affliction that working as a freelance journalist in Los Angeles did not help to cure. But when my mother di...

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Interlude in Annecy.

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I’ve been on holiday in France the past couple of weeks, although I have not yet had a chance to post the reflections I had promised about returning to the place I lived for 30 years after an eight year absence. That will pro...

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    Michael Balter is a journalist/journalism instructor based near NYC. Over 40+ years, he has written for Science, Scientific American, NYT, WaPo, SciAm, L.A. Times, CJR, Bon Appetit, Islands, SAPIENS, etc.

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