Gillian Brockell

Radley, if you don’t know, was a canary in the coal mine at WaPo Opinions, writing deeply reported pieces about police violence, which were utterly ignored by Opinions editors, who seemed hellbent on them NOT being seen during the peak of national interest. Then laid off for vague traffic reasons.

Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong.

For years and years I believed Ted Cruz was evil but brilliant, because I read a quote once from one of his liberal Harvard law professors, who said Cruz was the smartest student he’d ever had. Then one day I looked it up and realized it was Alan Dershowitz.