by jpitney | Apr 1, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Journalism, Journalists, Voice of America
With the Voice of America falling silent, Rep. Young Kim said she worries the U.S. is ceding the airwaves to foreign dictators. “And we’re not there to counter that disinformation,” she said.https://t.co/FfUHguDH0n — Kris Cheng (@krislc) March 31,...
by jpitney | Mar 31, 2025 | Free Speech, Higher Education
Assumption University President Greg Weiner at NYT: Colleges and universities are right to invoke academic freedom as an essential bulwark against government interference. But it is difficult not to greet this opportunistic defense of academic freedom cynically...
by jpitney | Mar 30, 2025 | California Politics, Crime
Summer Lin at LAT: The family of a a woman who was strangled to death last year during a conjugal visit with her husband at a Northern California prison has called for reforms after a second woman was killed in a similar manner. Tania Thomas, 47, was killed in July...
by jpitney | Mar 29, 2025 | intelligence, Reagan
Remarks at Groundbreaking Ceremonies for an Addition to the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters Complex, May 24, 1984: An intelligence agency cannot operate effectively unless its necessary secrets are maintained even in this, the most open and free country on...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing, Regulation
LINDSEY HOLDEN and DUSTIN GARDINER at POLITICO: California Democrats are feeling the weight of the state’s crushing housing crisis in a particularly acute way. Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener and other Democratic lawmakers...
