Craig R. Whitney Mass shooting follows mass shooting, year after year. Just since mid-May, shooters have used legally purchased military-style semi-automatic rifles to kill scores and leave dozens gravely injured: in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and now Highland Park, Illinois. …

TRUTH AND THE MEDIA TODAY Craig R. Whitney Sometimes we seem to be living in what Charles Sennott, a veteran journalist who founded the Ground Truth Project and teaches at Boston College, calls “a post-truth era,” all over the world. In Russia, after Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation”…

VIETNAM, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN — LESSON LEARNED? Craig R. Whitney United States forces will be out of Afghanistan, President Biden has promised, by Sept. 11 — twenty years to the day after devastating attacks by the al Qaeda Islamic terrorists based there that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. President George W. Bush…

President Trump Visits St. John's Episcopal Church President Donald J. Trump walks from the White House Monday evening, June 1, 2020, to St. John's Episcopal Church…www.flickr.com Wars and Rumors of Wars Late one night in June, a series of loud explosions outside our apartment in Brooklyn Heights jolted me awake. Bleary, I thought I was back in Saigon during the war, and we had just come under artillery bombardment. Where were the big guns that were…