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Do Not Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls for Thee
That’s Ernest Hemingway.
 • Jim Freeman
Graham Platner, a Nobody, Is Running for the Senate in Maine. Are We Ready for That?
I deeply hope so.
 • Jim Freeman
Elon Musk, the Astonishing Track-Record for the World’s Richest Man
Apparently, the way to become the richest man in the world is to fail bigly and piss everyone off.
 • Jim Freeman
Trust Me on This, Trump Is Planning a Nixonian End to His Presidency.
Acknowledging the fact that no pundit ever made a reputation foretelling Trumpian strategy, I’ll lay one on the table for you.
 • Jim Freeman
Ted Turner Will Be Missed, but His Mark Is on the Land.
There are, of course, the billionaires infecting the economic and political world, but they never last, and will likely never even leave an asterisk on…
 • Jim Freeman
The Met Gala, a “Really Huge Signifier That You Are In.”
In a stunning display of “what the hell, we’re rich enough to do whatever we want,” the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art fundraiser has just celebrated…
 • Jim Freeman
There’s Harry Truman and Donald Trump, and Never the Twain Shall Meet
That ‘twain’ thing is an idiomatic expression, originating from a Rudyard Kipling poem, describing two people, things, or ideas that are so…
 • Jim Freeman
“Seymour Hersh is doing what very few journalists still attempt—following consequences rather than headlines. This piece goes deeper than…
It was 93 degrees in Gaza on Wednesday, and the best that most survivors of Israel’s war there could manage was to find shade under a tent.
 • Jim Freeman
Poor Countries Have Become the Rich World’s Toilet.
Germany was largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending 810,000 tons overseas, analysis finds.
 • Jim Freeman

April 2026

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