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News Analysis With a Sense of Humor| White House Chronicle
News Analysis With a Sense of Humor| White House Chronicle
We live in an age of dichotomy. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. We have more means of communication, but there is a pandemic of loneliness. We have unprecedented access to information, but we seem to know less, from civics to the history of the country. We are beginning to […]| White House Chronicle
If you know what is going on in Gaza, it is because a journalist told you. If you know Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest comment about autism, it is because a…| White House Chronicle
There is enough fear to go around. There is fear of the indescribable horror when the ICE men and women, their faces hidden by masks, grab a suspected illegal immigrant. Their grab could come at the person’s home or place of work, while picking up a child from school or standing in the hallway of […]| White House Chronicle
The Big One is coming, and it isn’t an earthquake in California or a hurricane in the Atlantic. It is the imminent upending of so many of the world’s norms by artificial intelligence, for good and for ill. Jobs are being swept away by AI not in the distant future, but right now. A recent […]| White House Chronicle
Pull up the drawbridge, flood the moat and drop the portcullis. That, it would seem, is the science and research policy of the United States circa 2025. The problem with a siege policy is that even…| White House Chronicle
The future of electricity is being discussed in terms of how we make it: whether it should be generated by nuclear, wind and solar or by coal and natural gas. Nuclear is favored by the utilities and the Trump administration, but it will take decades and untold billions of dollars to build up a sizable […]| White House Chronicle
I have only known one stateless person. You don’t get a medal for it or wear a lapel pin. The stateless are the hapless who live in the shadows, in fear. They don’t know where the next …| White House Chronicle
Through two world wars, it has been the special relationship: the linkage between the United States and Britain. It is a linkage forged in a common language, a common culture, a common history and a common aspiration to peace and prosperity. The relationship, always strong, was burnished by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret […]| White House Chronicle
Beware: Classified documents don’t always hide state secrets, and security clearances are used as tools of manipulation and vengeance. Before Xerox, if you wanted to keep a copy of something,…| White House Chronicle
Wildfire takes no prisoners, has no mercy, knows no boundaries, respects no nation and is a clear and present danger this and every summer as summers grow drier and hotter. The American West is burning; across Canada there are wildfires; and swaths of France, Spain, Portugal and Greece are ablaze. In 2022, faraway Siberia was […]| White House Chronicle
“This Time It’s Different” is the title of a book by Omar Hatamleh on the impact of artificial intelligence on everything. Hatamleh, who is NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s chief artificial intelligence officer, means that we shouldn’t look to previous technological revolutions to understand the scope and the totality of the AI revolution. It is, […]| White House Chronicle
This was the summer when much of Europe said to the ever-increasing flow of tourists, “Sorry, we are full.” Of course, Europe isn’t full at all. It is just those places that we al…| White House Chronicle
Over the years, I have often been critical of the Public Broadcasting Service. That in spite of the fact that for 28 years, I have produced and hosted a program, “White House Chronicle,” which is c…| White House Chronicle
