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Historians and pundits often compare historical trends to graph lines on a chart, with political moods rising and falling like the heart rate of a cardiac patient. Alternatively, there’s the proverbial pendulum, swinging from left to right, right to left.…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to renew his hold on power in elections next month. His authority is not yet absolute: a judge recently ordered the release of several journalists convicted on dubious terrorism charges. Although they are now free…
I’m just back from eight days in Iran. Before my trip the United States withdrew from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear accords, and while I was in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, officially moved the embassy…
US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said the new website needed to be bot-proof, but also capable of seeking and unmasking anyone operating an “army” of disinformation bots. He explained that the problem with existing media was that journalists were under…
Twitter users from Bulgaria are being blocked by the social media’s system tasked with fighting “Russian bots.” Apparently, Twitter is unaware of other nations writing in Cyrillic. When Internet services blow the dust off the banhammer, it’s always an endless source…
There have also been several high-profile police killings since 2014 involving black suspects. In Baltimore, Freddie Gray died while in police custody, leading to protests and riots. In North Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Slager shot Walter Scott, who was fleeing…
