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A recent protest against the Beijing Winter Games by Tibetan independence groups in New Delhi after India announced it would join the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia in a diplomatic boycott of the Games. Photograph by Rizhwickh.

The game within the Games

February 5, 2022

Like most people, I’m not thrilled to be proven wrong. But here is one instance in which I’m glad: I said in my previous post that I didn’t think the Beijing Winter Games would withstand an actual geopolitical analysis of the host country, China. But I was wrong. NBC tackled the human rights abuse issues on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4, the day of the opening ceremonies.

Uncle Joe versus 'crazy uncle' -- the Biden-Trump show

October 21, 2020

Is America an abused, abandoned child in search of a kind uncle? Listening to pundits talk about the first presidential debate and dueling town halls, it certainly seems that way. On the one hand, you have the “crazy uncle” as “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie implied when President Donald J. Trump disavowed the reality of Seal Team Six getting Osama bin Laden under Trump archrival former President Barack Obama. (You have to love the waggish posters who call Trump’s armed, overweight white nationalists “Meal Team Six.”) On the other hand, there’s “Uncle Joe” Biden’s avuncular style on display in his town hall with “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos, with the former vice president offering to meet with questioners afterward for further discussion — and then actually doing it.