By Jill Abramson, The Boston Globe, October 26, 2024 In 2017, the Washington Post, under a more emboldened Bezos, unveiled its new slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” On Friday the Post hid what should have been a principled presidential endorsement in darkness. Democracy died in broad daylight on Friday when Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
By Jim Puzzanghera, The Boston Globe, September 24, 2024 WASHINGTON — Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld said he felt pretty lonely in 2020 as a Republican openly opposed to then-president Donald Trump, running a quixotic primary campaign against him and then announcing he voted for Democrat Joe Biden. Four years later, Weld’s got more company.
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 19,1924. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first big economic policy speech as the Democratic presidential nominee. It was, of course, very different from the “economic” speech and news conferences Donald Trump has held in the past couple of weeks. For one thing, Harris actually outlined her economic proposals, rather than