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Labor Day Software Update: Tinderbox, Scrivener
Over the eons, starting with a word processing program called The Electric Pencil back in the late 1970s, I’ve mentioned software I’ve found interesting in a more-than-utilitarian way. You’ll see...
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Eastport Update: Electric Power From the Sea
Early in 2014, I wrote a magazine article about the 1,300 residents of Eastport, Maine, with the title “The Little Town That Might.” The theme was that this tiny settlement, on the farthest extreme of...
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Trump Time Capsule #92: ‘How the Media Undermine American Democracy’
The print edition of the NYT that arrived at my house two days ago, saying something very different from what the "same" story was saying online.Twenty years ago I published a book called Breaking the...
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The World Comes to a Tiny Town: Eastport's Lesson in Globalization
A big theme in this election year is that other countries are swindling, out-negotiating, under-bidding, and generally beating the United States in the race for better jobs and companies. With a...
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Trump Time Capsule #93: God Is the Ultimate
Offered without comment. This video is from several months ago, early in the campaign. But I hadn’t seen it before, and it is timeless. You will not regret investing 52 seconds in watching it.The...
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New Hope for the Devil
No, despite the title, this is not a U.S.-politics item.Three years ago I did an Atlantic piece called “Maybe the Most Unforgettable Place Ever,” about the removed-from-time Australian island of...
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Trump Time Capsule #94: Pay to Play
Over the weekend I mentioned signs of the press beginning to “normalize” Donald Trump. This was especially so in equating “doubts,” “questions,” “clouds,” and the “atmosphere of entitlement” that...
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Trump Time Capsule #95: Simple Logic
Donald Trump has taken heat, and will take more, for refusing to release his tax information.It logically follows that whatever is in the tax returns would make him look worse than his stonewalling...
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What's in Those Tax Returns? Some Informed Guesses
With 61-plus days until the election, Donald Trump remains the only major-party nominee for the presidency or vice presidency of the post-Watergate era who has refused to release his tax returns. Not...
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Trump Time Capsule #96: 'Putin Has an 82 Percent Approval Rating!'
I’ve just now watched the hour-long “Commander in Chief Forum” on NBC, moderated by Matt Lauer. Three points that deserve note for the record:1. Iraq. Donald Trump led off by claiming, falsely, that he...
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Trump Time Capsule #97: Dallas, Richmond, D.C.
A for-the-record note of developments in the past few days that, again, make this GOP nominee different from his predecessors:1. Dallas. The Dallas Morning News is as reliably conservative and...
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Trump Time Capsule #98: The Classified Briefing
Last night, at the “Commander-in-Chief” forum, Donald Trump characterized what he had heard from intelligence officials in a classified briefing, and said why he believed the briefers agreed with his...
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Trump Time Capsule #99: Editorials
Through any campaign, candidates have ups and downs in their editorial-page treatment. The concentration of these four editorials in the past 24 hours seems unusual and is worth noting as a possible...
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Cattle Drives in Down East Maine
Last night my wife Deb put up a report called “Little Town, Big Art.” It’s about how a surprisingly ambitious effort in The Arts—painting, sculpture, photography, drama, music, festivals (like the...
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Erie's Unlikely Benefactor: Its Casino
From the beginning, liberal democracies have faced this challenge: how to provide long-term resources for public benefit, in political systems that are always oriented toward the next election and by...
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Trump Time Capsule #100: An Interview That Would Have Made News in Any Other...
An uncatchable-up-with amount of news has happened in the three days since installment #99. So I’ll start the regrouping process with something simple: a single incredible interview.Early this morning,...
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Trump Time Capsule #101: Pepe the Frog
Remember the episode of “the Star,” reported back in installment #33? It was only two months ago, but it seems forever.Remember this?Way back in July, Donald Trump retweeted an item showing Hillary...
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When Donald Meets Hillary
The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It’s about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960...
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Trump Vs. Clinton: When Polar Opposites Debate
When it comes to the upcoming presidential debates, both candidates have distinct styles. Donald Trump’s strategy thus far has been humiliation and domination. However, Hillary Clinton is arguably at...
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Normalizing Trump: Hear the Podcast, Watch the Video
Because I’ve been on the road talking about my new story on the upcoming presidential debates—read it here! and then subscribe!—I am again falling behind the accelerating reality of the Trump Time...
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