Tag: Washington Post

  • Trayvon Martin and American Justice, Cont’d.

    How do you think the Zimmerman trial would have ended under these circumstances? Elspeth Reeve takes Richard Cohen of the Washington Post to task in her Atlantic Column: Richard Cohen’s column in Tuesday’s Washington Post— arguing that George Zimmerman was right to assume Trayvon Martin was a criminal, because he was a black male—is racist and…

  • This Week’s Rant

    Howard Schnieder in the Washington Post posits that, with the fall of China’s superstar status, more rapid change in the relations between China and the US may be possible. It’s an informative piece that nevertheless leaves me in a sputtering, almost incoherent rage.  The author notes that “some members of Congress” still worry about  the…