We launched Deep Dish today, our prototype for a monthly magazine of long-form journalism. My post on it is here. We began with an eBook that’s an edited compilation of my real-time response to 9/11 and the Iraq War. It was grueling for me to read again – and a glutton’s feast of dramatic irony – but a small gesture of journalistic accountability in an unaccountable time. I also had a long conversation with a man who fought in the war I championed, and who tells of the horror he encountered and still lives with every day.
The pile-on against Obamacare reached a frenzied media pitch – and one that seems increasingly out of proportion to the fact that the ACA is the law, that repeal is a fantasy, and that making it work better is the sanest option among many bad ones. Then there was the Cheney family feud, about which I had some, you know, opinions. And the gruesome new leader of al Qaeda in Pakistan. And the giant brothel which is now Germany. Pope Francis showed once again how to engage critics when you’re an actual Christian (something I’ve failed to do myself at times); and an inter-generational face that’ll make you do a double take.
The most popular post of the day was The Cheneys and The Republicans. Second up was the front page of Deep Dish. But you have to be a subscriber to get the monthly long-form version of the Dish. So [tinypass_offer text=”subscribe!”] We can’t keep doing this without you.
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