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Why is the President-elect so good at getting the media to chase their own tails?

How Westerners misunderstand the Eurasian drift of former Soviet republics like Moldova.

The problem with our media isn’t “fake news.” It’s the absence of meaningful contexts for interpretation.

How serious political reporting became a luxury good amid a mass-market media circus.

(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)

President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address, televised January 2018 on the Daily Donald Trump (DDT) network.

(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)

Forget about North Korea and The Interview: For decades Hollywood has been censoring its own output to protect access to the Chinese market.

(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)

What the New Republic and the Washington Redskins have in common.

(Co-Authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)

A former President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a longtime
observer of America’s public diplomacy weigh in on Michael Pack’s
“Wednesday night massacre.”

Is China’s brand of coercive “soft power” a contradiction in terms? A new edited volume helps cut through the morass.

America’s eternal secular messianic temptation has now alighted on gender equality.

Rounding out the politically correct narrative about blackface.

Five discomfiting aspects of the media spectacle that now accompanies every mass shooting.

How the “Xi change” in China is causing an invisible earthquake.