A Look Back at 2024 with an Eye on 2025

December 28, 2024 by

Fact-Checking Has Always Been an Elemental Part of Journalism

A whole new area of endeavor is opening up for the entrepreneurial. Name it after the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. He allegedly hunted for an honest man and was possibly the founder of Cynicism. Verification will become a vital business as the flood of misinformation engulfs us. What can be trusted? What source is […]

Trump ‘Puts a Bit of Stick About’ and Frightens Our Friends

Llewellyn King

President-elect Donald Trump is “putting a bit of stick about.” That is a British expression which means as it sounds to stir up trouble. In sports, like rugby, it means to play more aggressively. In politics, it can mean to stir up trouble for trouble’s sake. Aficionados of UK television will remember when, in the BBC […]

My Frightening, Splendid Christmas in the ER

Llewellyn King

Most people have horror stories about emergency rooms. Whether in Boston, Washington or Los Angeles, the stories are appalling. Gurneys, sometimes with critically ill patients, lined up and left unattended along walls. Hurting people waiting for hours because of a shortage of staff, beds and a prevailing shortage of resources. Systems that are stressed and seem […]

Trump, Who Thinks He Bought the Nation, Now Eyes the World

Llewellyn King

When Donald Trump began his first term as president in 2017, I wrote that he came to office not as a politician who had won an election, but rather as a businessman who had won a takeover battle and was ready to hire, fire, sell-off, and generally to reshape the property he had bought. On […]