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Oct 8, 2025, 1:04 AM

And It Shall Come To Pass

Prophesy is a risky business, especially in the Middle East——-always has been, always will be. It’s also highly risky to depend on the whims and moods and visions of Donald Trump. He believes he can generate alternative realities. In a...

Jul 23, 2025, 9:44 PM

It’s at Tel Hashomer where patients, doctors and visitors ignored the no-smoking signs——unless nurse Esther happened by——that Kranzdorf lay comatose. Yes, they’d brought the colonel by medevac and wheeled him into the OR, then five hours later out of...

Jul 22, 2025, 7:07 PM

That gizmo on the dash

I live in San Francisco and use the Yellow Cab app on my iPhone to order rides. The other day I ordered, and when the Ford hybrid pulled up and I climbed into the back seat I saw the...

Feb 26, 2024, 4:41 PM

Neighborhood Bully

The following is a verbatim transcript of a Q&A with ChatGPT. It has not been edited for length or clarity. ——————————————————————————————————————— Q.: Can you identify these lyrics? Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man His enemies say he's on their land They got...

Nov 3, 2023, 11:09 PM

How Joe Biden Unexpectedly Channeled Winston Churchill Ten years and a month ago Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian groups and individuals breached the fence around the Gaza Strip and murdered, mutilated, raped and burned to death more than a...

Dec 4, 2018, 9:24 AM

Letter to Max-Part One

With thanks to J. Assange

Oct 27, 2018, 9:15 AM

HELP! A Story for Now Yesterday I was visiting my attorney——-she’s Yale College, Yale Law, half my age——-when #MeToo came up. We talked, and I heard myself reveal something I’d kept to myself more than half a century. Was letting it...

Feb 27, 2016, 11:01 AM

Woman, 79, Brains Man, 81

BOCA RATON, FL.-——A resident of a retirement community here is in hospital and another under arrest following a political disagreement yesterday. Police and emergency responders were called to Kugel Gardens when Hettie Tannenbaum, 79, assaulted Irving Zlotnik, 81, using a...

Oct 22, 2014, 1:56 AM

A passionate intensity

Stop anybody on the street in China and ask her what the world’s leading university is and you can bet she’ll say, “Harvard.” She’s misinformed. Harvard isn’t even number one in America—-U.S. News & World Report has anointed Princeton...

Jun 17, 2014, 10:59 AM

Too soon to say

The Middle East map is being redrawn, a natural result of earlier regroupings that loosed anarchy upon the world

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About Me

Edward Grossman has reported for TOI, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Commentary, Les Temps Modernes (Paris) and so forth.