by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Aug 12, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
AUGUST 2025 – In late November 2023 – nearly a year before the presidential election – public intellectual Robert Kagan penned one of the most prescient works of political analysis ever posted to a news site. He wrote, in The Washington Post, that...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jul 29, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
JULY 2025 – Center-right NYT columnist Bret Stephens came out and said it: “Not everything Trump does is bad.” And of course the relatively modest number of reader comments – fewer than 250 as of now – skewered Stephens for even...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jul 24, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
JULY 2025 – Politico from the start has been the ESPN of the political scene – everything and more for the serious follower of DC. But more recently it’s producing some newsy coverage. One of its young columnists, Ankush Khardori, is a 43-year-old,...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jul 2, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
JULY 2025 – The American reading public – a decided subset of the American public – doesn’t exactly devour the work of economists and business journalists these days. But among the voices in finance there are bright spots, and one of them is...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jun 23, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews
JUNE 2025 – There was a lot to be relieved about following the US Army’s 250th Anniversary parade on June 14 – it turned out to be a relatively easy-going affair, no goose-stepping regiments to impress the wanna-be autocrat. And Washington Post...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jun 10, 2025 | Opinions & Critical Reviews, Worth Noting
JUNE 2025 – WSJ op-ed page folks pride themselves on their “free people free markets” mantra – and have for decades. And as such generally they acknowledge facts. But not always. One howling example came on March 31 when the WSJ news department...