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A Lesson From the Iran Hostage Crisis, Only a Few Decades Late

I've never doubted that the Reagan people played some kind of hocus-pocus with the country's foreign policy.

More than once on this blog, I've told about how I was in Washington in January of 1981, covering the events surrounding the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan for the late, lamented Boston Phoenix. As it turned out, I wound up ...

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The Press Just Went Along for the Ride with Bush's Invasion of Iraq

It was all death and lies, and a credulous press corps failed in its fundamental purpose.

I have been struggling with how to discuss the 20th anniversary of our misbegotten jaunt into Iraq (a.k.a. Operation C-Plus Augustus) here in our shebeen. At the time, I was working for the Boston Globe Magazine, so I was ...

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