A year into the Arab Spring, the journalists, bloggers and Tweeters who risked so much to speak freely have won only partial victories. The media in Tunisia and Libya are enjoying a break to freedom, but in Egypt journalists are being persecuted harshly and in countries where old regimes remain in power, the formal and informal press continue to be cruelly suppressed. Read more...
By William J. Holstein Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Holland one of the most successful countries. With only 16 million people, the Dutch obviously have to cooperate with each other to survive. There is a real economic vitality to the place, based in part on Amsterdam's ability to attract talented foreign expatriates from all over the world. Read more...
Egypt toppled after Tunisia, and now others totter. Distant analysts seize on the obvious: dominoes. But the Middle East plays backgammon, far more intricate and old as the Sphinx. Read more...
Nobody really knows how many journalists actually covered the Vietnam War over the years from 1961 to the fall of Saigon in 1975, but it is likely that most of them visited the Saigon bureau of the Associated Press at some point. Now comes The Polaroid Portraits, Indochina 1972-1975, a unique record of these pilgrimages, produced in book form by Neal Ulevich. Read more...
The New York Times has published its second-in-a-series of articles about Japan's economy and what the Americans have to learn from the bursting of its financial bubble nearly two decades ago. It has taken almost two weeks for the Times to print the second
in a series, which is unusual timing. Read more...
A front-page story in The New York Times proclaims that "Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened." Then the deck reads: "Retrenchment Offers the West a Grim Vision of the Future." Grim? Really? The author offers pretty thin gruel to make such bold statements. Read more...
