#Rewriting

How will the GOP recover from the complicity and corruption of the Trump era? To many Republicans, the answer is simple: Pretend it never happened. My story on the collective
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Notable that whilst Robert Jenrick wangs on about history and revisionists for a whole nonsensical column, he never once mentions historians. This is my main critique of “historians of the
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A must-see report by Ted Koppel for @CBSSunday. Presidential Emergency Action Documents originated in the 1950s as a way to prepare for the aftermath of a nuclear war. They allow
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Scholars from many disciplines are rightfully demolishing @Harvard_Law prof. Mark Ramseyer for deliberately omitting historical evidence and misapplying both contract law and game theory in an article calling World War
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Thinking lately about how racket macros are very good, but that has remarkably little to do with what people would traditionally call a “macro system”; the most interesting pieces are
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(1 of 3) Happening in the US, too.With China’s tightening control over Hong Kong, including passage of a new national security law, the territory’s pro-democracy activists, politicians, journalists and others
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REWRITES THREADPeople frequently ask about rewriting their screenplays and a few days ago while waiting for a plane I tweeted a bunch of stuff - but not in any thread.
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Mehta who cynically calls herself a "humanitarian filmmaker" worked with Sri Lankan war criminals in her last movie "Water". She met in 2010 with then President M. Rajapakse who months
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Alright, academics. As I've been writing/rewriting/revising, I've been thinking a lot about the good writing advice that I've received over the years. So, I'm curious: what's the best writing advice
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A conversation held every year in Hollywood:What if Scrooge was a really hot YOUNG man? And the ghosts were all sexy as hell??Also Christmas Past can be topless, no reason
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The "United" States of America. The mistake the International Party has always made-and this fatal error mirrors the personality structure of their financiers and the "who" is behind the party
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Last week I asked people to “submit your company landing page” and I’d rewrite it.Well, we did it! I teamed up with Annie Maguire, one of the best copywriters in
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Scotland, you are under attack. From #misinformation and rewriting of History - and not just on the school curriculum.This is an important thread, because it's one example but it's the
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The essence of good #writing is *rewriting*A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. If you don’t rewrite
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What Amanda Gorman showed the world was everything BUT magic. The brilliance of a Black Harvard educated young woman may seem like a magical thing, but it IS NOT! She
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In 1865, Black people all over the South were saying this Union officials: Do not abolish slavery and leave us landless and disenfranchised. Do not force us towork for our
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