Janet Cooke is 66 April 15, 1981 “Jimmy’s World” was in essence a fabrication. I never encountered or interviewed an 8-year-old heroin addict…I apologize to my newspaper, my profession, the Pulitzer board and all seekers of the truth. Today, in facing up to the truth, I have submitted my resignation. …

Craig R. Whitney Vladimir Putin’s atrocious attack against Ukraine is the biggest military and humanitarian catastrophe in Europe since World War II. Putin sent 200,000 Russian troops in to “decapitate” Ukraine’s elected government, to keep the country from ever joining the NATO alliance, and take over — to undo the…

Welcome to the finale of Peter Osnos’ Platform on Medium. Starting on January 10, this will become a newsletter appearing regularly on Substack. Here’s the reasoning: Social media and digital delivery are a 21st century phenomenon. It is hard to fully fathom that this now omnipresent means of communication barely…

Welcome to the finale of Peter Osnos’ Platform on Medium. Starting January 10th, this newsletter will be appearing regularly on Substack. Here’s the reasoning: Social media and digital delivery are a 21st century phenomenon. It is hard to fully fathom that this now omnipresent means of communication barely existed at…

The Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is by any measure a significant matter for book publishing, even though the deal itself is a fraction of the size of, say, Time Warner and AT&T, which went through. Publishing books is a…

As 2021 heads through the final quarter of another year scarred by Covid and too many other crises of one kind or another to keep track, there are daily reminders of what is usually attributed to “old age.” The image of Bill Clinton masked and frail on Hillary’s arm leaving…

Jobs, Gates, Dell, Sinclair (Who?) Clive Sinclair, a slender, bespectacled 42-year-old Englishman with a shy smile and a newly fat bank account, sees big changes coming in the world and offers a stunning forecast that, if true, will affect everything we do. …

In this summer of extreme weather, the Delta surge, and the chaos in Afghanistan, Barack Obama’s sixtieth birthday party got major media play, much of it critical because of its scale amid so many national crises. On the other hand, the Obamas were celebrating a major life milestone at their…

Is This Time Different? On March 15, 1965, before a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Baines Johnson gave the most memorable speech of his political career. The subject was his plan to submit a voting rights bill. “Our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of…