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Critical Eye
Q&A: Confront and Conceal author David Sanger
July 2, 2012 03:02 PMConfront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power | By David E. Sanger | Crown | 476 pages, $28.00 Every White House keeps secrets, especially when it comes to national security. It’s the job of the... Continue reading
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Critical Eye
Douglas Brinkley talks Cronkite
June 13, 2012 06:50 AMIn Cronkite, his hefty new biography, author and historian Douglas Brinkley tackles the “most trusted man in America,” as newsman Walter Cronkite was known for decades. Cronkite, born in Missouri in 1916, cut his teeth as a World War II... Continue reading
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Feature
Muscovy pluck
May 1, 2012 06:00 AMIn Vladimir Putin’s Russia, there is no more persistent reproach to his autocratic rule than the country’s oldest independent radio station, Ekho Moskvy. A ripe case in point came during the run-up to the March... Continue reading
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Money Talks
March 19, 2012 06:00 AMGillian Tett, the US managing editor of the London-based Financial Times, is “sharp” and “glamorous,” according to a 2010 profile by The Daily Beast. She may even be “the most powerful woman in newspapers,”... Continue reading
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All the President’s Pundits
August 24, 2011 02:34 PMOn a Thursday evening this past May, Eliot Spitzer, hosting his now-cancelled CNN show, lobbed a chummy question to his studio guest Fareed Zakaria—an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, an... Continue reading
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