Reporters covering foreign affairs must not neglect the 20th anniversary of the Bush/Cheney criminal invasion of Iraq. There are good stories, features and editorials to be written looking back and looking at the present. See below my letter to New York Times Managing Editor Joseph Kahn. — March 9, 2023 Dear Mr. Kahn, The Times…

From its inception the World Trade Organization has frequently been violated with impunity by various nations across the planet. In the last few years, the violations have turned into a rout. There’s hardly anything left of the restrictions placed on trade barriers by the WTO. What is called “economic nationalism” has taken over and countries…

-A good subject for reporters is the massive expansion of government by waiver over the last few decades—where Congress mandates the executive branch and then gives the president a waiver authority based on vague criteria that have no boundaries other than the whim of the president. Article on this by Bruce Fein in the new…

-A good story would be about why the January 6th Committee has not subpoenaed the two top dogs—Donald Trump and Mike Pence—who have exclusive knowledge about the origins of the January 6th event. They have not indicated any intention to do so as their investigation comes to a close. Why? -Has anyone really read the…

1. A major investigation of the fast-expanding outsourcing by the federal government. Contracting out governmental functions and operations are a gigantic business. Tens of thousands of civil servants are being out-negotiated by corporate attorneys’ time and time again. Thousands more civil servants are supposed to be monitoring the implementation of these contracts. Lots of waste,…

It would be good to know how many of Trump’s deregulations the Democrats have restored in financial., environmental, and labor areas. The New York Times once had a chart of all the degradations that Trump had issued weakening environmental regulations. It would be good to see what the Democrats have restored or repealed. What is…

Where are the reporters looking into inadequate hospital capacity in the U.S.? Far fewer beds now than in the 1970s. What’s Washington doing to expand this infrastructure?

-Why not a report on Biden and Trump’s coronavirus relief proposals that have passed Congress? What has actually been spent? Over $4 trillion has been appropriated. Where is the unspent money and why hasn’t it been spent? One NY Times report said that only 34% of the Paycheck Protection Program actually went to the workers…

With all the attention on Senator Joe Manchin’s veto of President Biden’s infrastructure and social safety net proposals, reporters should dig deep into the total unanimity of 50 Republican Senators, especially among the five GOP Senators not running for re-election. Why no dissenters? What are the pressures? Who is wavering? And what are the Democrats…

-Much reporting is needed on the contracting out of government functions on a massive scale of federal, state and local governments. The federal government provides summaries of these contracts but, despite bipartisan support in Congress, still does not provide the full text of this trillion dollar outsourcing. That effort has stalled in Congress due to…