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Max vs. Media: Trump’s influence for foreign policy

Max vs. Media: Trump’s influence for foreign policy

Max Berman March 25, 2018
Do you remember the summer of 2015? We were all so naïve. Mexico, if you recall, was sending their worst people to America (aka rapists), and Donald Trump had a great solution. Trump would announce his presidential candidacy with paid protesters and a promise to build a wall.
BERMAN: Americans are uninformed about global events: that’s the news’ fault, and yours

BERMAN: Americans are uninformed about global events: that’s the news’ fault, and yours

Max Berman September 21, 2017

Television news programs have the uncanny ability to be uninformative, corporatist and melodramatic — all at the same time. Often times, when a worldwide humanitarian disaster occurs, there is a delay...

BERMAN: New age of doublethink

BERMAN: New age of doublethink

Max Berman January 27, 2017

A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading George Orwell’s “1984.” So, when I was watching last Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” it surprised me that I encountered “doublethink” from Kellyanne...

EDITORIAL: Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright wrong about female voters and Hillary Clinton

EDITORIAL: Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright wrong about female voters and Hillary Clinton

Editors February 9, 2016

The world of feminism is imploding. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday and said, “When you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys? The boys...

NBC’s Meet the Press held an interview with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Sunday, in which he discussed the grand jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and the future of the Democratic Party. PHOTO BY LAURA JANE BRUBAKER/DFP FILE PHOTO

Patrick speaks out about Ferguson decision, plans after leaving office

Stephanie Pagones December 1, 2014

In a Sunday morning interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told moderator Chuck Todd that he had hoped the grand jury in the Ferguson case would have made a...

MAHDI: It’s a small world after all

Daily Free Press Admin February 25, 2013

I think I’m going to preface this latest episode of my Washingtonian experience by saying that I’m actually writing this from a New Orleans-themed café in a neighborhood called Kalorama. The ceiling...

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