Howard French

Reading.

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Proposed name change. Bored of Peace. There.

All The News That's Fit To Print The Paper of Record does Aliko Dangote a favour

Interesting and careful look at the glowing NYT profile of Africa's reputedly richest man. open.substack.com/pub/1914read...

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

Never gets old.

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.

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Trump’s Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire

Good piece by @ewong.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

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One family to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok.

Why Is America So Obsessed With Cuba? Trump’s rhetoric is reviving old U.S. fantasies about the island.

Something I wrote about Cuba. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/26/u...

One family to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok.

Why Is America So Obsessed With Cuba? Trump’s rhetoric is reviving old U.S. fantasies about the island.

Something I wrote about Cuba. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/26/u...

Close Trump allies now stand to own both CBS and CNN.

Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after Warner’s board determined Paramount’s revised offer was superior.

No outcome would have been good but this is the worst. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Exclusive | As Trump’s African Peace Deal Teetered, a Call From Rwanda Halted U.S. Sanctions The White House says Rwanda has violated a U.S.-brokered agreement on Congo, but sanctions are on ice.

Reading. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer? How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

He was not just the greatest guitarist of the day, he was an engineer. spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix...

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Emergency, yes. Emergency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

Reading. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Excellent book.

When he said "I'm exonerated," in response to no question that concerned him, that was the give away. (See below.)

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

Such a surprise. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Opinion | The Iranian Regime Has Committed a Massacre We surveyed medical workers across 14 cities and 11 provinces about their experiences treating wounded protesters.

If only the paper were always this forthright. The headline: "It is one of the worst mass killings in contemporary world history." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Memo to the president:

Mamdani’s Vanquished Foes Are Plotting a Comeback, if Not Revenge

And guess who is rooting for them? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/n...

U.S. women’s hockey team declines Trump’s State of the Union invitation The players “were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgement,” according to a team statement.

The men's team was all over Fox yesterday. This is sure to go un mentioned. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

James Wolcott · What you can get away with: Updike Reconsidered Betwixt and between is a strange place for any major writer to be more than a decade and a half after their death, and...

Long and stylish essay about the largely forgotten Updike. One thing I couldn't get over in his fiction is its monochrome nature. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

He dreamed of a United States of Africa - The World from PRX February 24 marks sixty years since Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a military coup. Nkrumah had been a vocal campaigner for Pan-Africanism, a United States of Africa that wo...

An interview about my new book, The Second Emancipation. theworld.org/segments/202...