Rick Stengel

If Mr. Moran worked for me, I would have had a private conversation with him about crossing a line into too much subjectivity—I would not have suspended him. I suspect if he had said the same exact words on air, nothing would have happened. Journalists have free speech rights too.

We’re seeing one of the hallmarks of authoritarianism: the criminalization of dissent and its suppression by violence.

Autocrats turn ordinary situations into emergencies so they can wield extraordinary power.

Apart from the immorality of importing Russian diesel, it makes no sense. We already produce more diesel than we need and export the rest. The amount we're importing is a drop in the bucket, less than ten days consumption. It only makes sense if the Trump wants to help Putin keep killing Ukrainians.

Yes, there has been corruption in both parties in our history, but the Trump corruption is in a different category. The scale, the brazenness, the lack of any pretense of virtue or concern for the damage is unequalled in our history.

"Zelensky better damn well stop," the President said. "He's making problems for our farmers, our ranchers." The two people making problems for farmers & ranchers are (1) Putin by invading Ukraine in the first place, and (2) Trump by invading Iran. Mr. Zelensky has nothing to do with it.

Not a surprise. We have a president who condones violence against his opponents. Election officials are heroes and patriots. We honor them by voting.

Classic blame-the-victim strategy. Oil prices have shot up because a certain president invaded Iran, not because of Ukraine's attacks against Russia. In fact, this president is supporting the aggressor, Russia, in defiance of law and morality and what should be American values. Voters see this.

Trump relaxing sanctions on Russia to import oil to America to reduce diesel costs is like FDR announcing in 1939 that he is importing coal from Germany to bring down heating costs.

Trump's thoughtless invasion of Iran was meant to project American military power—instead, it has retrenched it, with American forces retreating from dozens of bases around the world and giving our adversaries a roadmap of how to resist US power.

The Global Engagement Center was started by a bi-partisan act of Congress to investigate and fight foreign disinformation and propaganda. It engaged with foreign mis-and-disinformation, not domestic voices. Its destruction is damaging to American interests, as this powerful piece shows.

The worst negotiator in the world tells his adversary that arms sales to Taiwan are "a very good negotiating chip" thereby nullifying the value of that chip.

No one wants non-citizens to vote. But the administration would rather harm the rights of actual naturalized citizens in a dangerous quest to find the almost non-existent illegible voter. Dangerous and undemocratic. Vote!