Salvatore Babones Posts

Sadly, what the world most often needs is tough love, and tough is exactly not the kind of love Blinken seems to feel for the outside world.

If China’s public embrace of terrorist tactics isn’t enough to get Chinese companies banned from participation in the critical digital infrastructure of Western democracies, it’s hard to imagine what red lines are left.

If it confirms a Biden victory with roughly the same margin as the original machine count, most reasonable people’s concerns about vote tampering in other states will subside.

Nihilism is strangely popular in a pandemic, and Biden’s base is baying for a lockdown. The first great test of his leadership will be his ability to resist their demands.

It is inevitable that journalists will come to their jobs with points of view, just like everyone else. But unlike the rest of us, it is a journalist’s job to suppress that personal point of view.