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About Lawrence
Lawrence Meyer is a veteran, award-winning newspaper reporter and editor. He spent thirty-two years at The Washington Post, where he witnessed many of the twentieth century’s most dramatic events. During the 1970s, he covered the attempted assassination of Governor George C. Wallace, the Watergate break-in trial, the Senate Watergate hearings, and the subsequent impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon. His intimate familiarity with the thinking and politics at the heart of a great American newspaper lends remarkable accuracy and immediacy to The Final Edition.
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The Mind of Donald Trump
Iranians can thank Donald Trump for pressuring their government to stop slaughtering protesters. At least that’s what Donald Trump says. Now maybe he can get federal law enforcement to stop killing American protesters. A cynical version of what’s going on in Minneapolis is that ICE agents were sent there to provoke protests so that more agents could be sent, leading…
A Man of Flexible Principles
But you who philosophize disgrace And criticize all fears …
The Year in Review
2025 has been a terrible year. It was terrible even before it began for reasons that readers of these pages will understand. The anticipation of another four years, a continuation of the 45th president’s first four, couldn’t be avoided. The anticipation, however, didn’t prepare us for the onslaught that began on January 20. Nothing could have prepared us for the…
George Orwell Revisited II
“But today you are the law. You are the law. Not some book; not the lawyers; not the marble statue or the trappings of the court. These are just symbols of our desire for something just”. …