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. And I will go beyond my usual diet of politics and policy to share books I am reading, films I have seen, travels I am taking and more.to make sure you get the first edition in its entirety.
As some of you know, I didn’t start my professional life as a journalist. I practiced labor law for 20 years. So, if my columns sometimes read like a brief — position, evidence, argument, conclusion — that’s my legal training poking through. Not being a lifelong journalist, I’ve had the great benefit to learn from many fine colleagues at The Post and elsewhere. But it’s also allowed me to utilize my academic love of history and legal training.
So how do we cope with these challenges? I try to screen out the media gibberish and focus on the bigger picture. What matters most to me now is preservation of American values, pluralistic democracy, scientific reality and simple decency. Those principles help ground me and provide a way of understanding the avalanche of news we encounter each week.And my search for meaning and for hope in a confusing world doesn’t stop when I log off my computer for the day.
I’d like to think of the newsletter as a place to search for context, for understanding and for faith in the tenacity of the human spirit, a place to recognize where we’ve come from and where we can find reassurance. And I would also like it to provide some needed relief from a world too often gone mad. Because we aren’t powerless. We are writing future chapters of the American story.
I hope you’ll join me in my new adventure. You’ll have the opportunity to weigh in, and I’ll welcome your ideas and suggestions each week.
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