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Nunes' Suit Against a Twitter Cow Should Prompt as Much Concern as Laughter. Mar. 28, 2019
Poor Devin Nunes. The Republican congressman and servile human shield for President Donald Trump is ... Read More
With Their Silence, Republicans Condone Trump's Latest Attacks on McCain Mar. 21, 2019
It's a measure of how thoroughly our political norms have collapsed that the U.S. president spent la... Read More
Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Break Up Big Tech Would Be Bad for America Mar. 15, 2019
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has a new plan to break up Big Tech companies. The proposal en... Read More
Short Takes on Confusion, Clarity and Everything in Between Mar. 04, 2019
Punting the Issue Imagine our surprise when local St. Louis attorneys accused the National Football ... Read More
I've Been Silicon Valley Sharia'd Feb. 27, 2019
Last week, the little birdies in Twitter's legal department notified me that one of my tweets from 2... Read More
A Walking, Talking, Tweeting State of Emergency Feb. 20, 2019
WASHINGTON — Presidents Day. No need to be glum if you stick with George Washington and Abraha... Read More
You Can't Say That on Twitter Feb. 15, 2019
She tweeted that "men are not women," and for that, Meghan Murphy, feminist journalist, was banned f... Read More
Catholic Schools Aren't 'Bastions of Bigotry' Feb. 01, 2019
Catholic Schools Week comes and goes the last week of January without mention here or fanfare anywhe... Read More
Our Time Is Here Jan. 30, 2019
Have you ever had a moment when you didn't know whom you needed to hear until someone in front of yo... Read More
Journalism Isn't Dead; It's Undead Jan. 24, 2019
A popular theme in the Twitterverse this week is "Journalism is dead." Two events apparently driving... Read More
Troops Pay the Price for Trump's Syria Blunder Jan. 22, 2019
The tragic deaths of U.S. troops in northern Syria on Wednesday underscore how wrong — dead wr... Read More
Short Takes on Blindfold Challenges and Blinder Bigotry Jan. 21, 2019
The Darwin Challenge In the Netflix film "Bird Box," a mysterious force overtakes Earth, causing mas... Read More
Social Media Is Harming America; We Need to Do Something About It Jan. 18, 2019
By now, we know that social media is more likely to bring out the worst in us than the best in us. O... Read More
Social Media Is People Jan. 11, 2019
In the 1973 dystopian film "Soylent Green," Detective Frank Thorn, played by Charlton Heston, invest... Read More
Stop Messing With Markets Jan. 03, 2019
In American politics, it is axiomatic that presidents get (and take) the credit for economic prosper... Read More
These Boots Are Made for Double Standards Dec. 28, 2018
Is there anything, anything at all, for which President Donald Trump won't be faulted by a press cor... Read More
And Peace Online Dec. 26, 2018
My New Year's resolution: Make a careful distinction between speech and violence. America's First A... Read More
LYNDA HIRSCH ON TELEVISION -- GOSSIP Dec. 15, 2018
Oh, joy! My Christmas gift arrived early this year. Readers of this column know I am obsessed with t... Read More
A Look Back at the Words of 2018 Dec. 12, 2018
My goodness, what a year we had, With mayhem, storms, and fires so bad. Our language seemed to fall ... Read More
Remember When Technology Was Supposed to Mean Freedom? Nov. 29, 2018
The New York Times recently ran an article titled "How China Walled off the Internet." In it, author... Read More
