Host of The Kalb Report at the @PressClubDC. Journalist and scholar with @shorensteinctr @pulitzercenter @brookingsinst @npclub. Author of Assignment Russia.
Gorbachev was one of the great men of the 20th century, helping to end Soviet communism and with it the Cold War. With him as leader, Russia would never have invaded Ukraine. He'd have helped it grow.
Question: Are there still Republicans, such as those who supported Reagan, who can spot the difference between truth and falsehood? And who have the courage to speak up? Please say yes.
ONLY FOR YANKEE FANS: if Yankees win wild card game, they then have to face Tampa Bay again, and they're spooked by TB. Awfully hard to beat them. So enjoy the WC day, and hope for better things next year.
Only for Yankee fans: In despair in recent months, I've returned to baseball, my eternal salvation, better when the Yankees are winning. What in God's name has happened to them btw? They may not make the playoffs, after all. And then what's left but returning to despair?
At this time of national pain, can Biden's critics hold off for a while? Can seekers of cheap political points just cool it, while we remember and thank the 13 US servicemen and women who died in Afghanistan? Please. There will be plenty of time for finger-pointing.
Syria's Assad told visiting SecState Kissinger: "You Americans walked out on the South Vietnamese. You'll give up on Taiwan, and eventually you'll give up on Israel, too."
Join us at 3pm EST to hear @MarvinKalb discuss his new book #AssignmentRussia with @franksesno! Looking forward to cosponsoring this event today with our @ElliottSchoolGW and @SMPAGWU colleagues. Event information and Zoom link here: https://t.co/6VqosvvgNG
Dictators can arrest journalists, but they cannot arrest the flow of information or the push for freedom, which ultimately will drive them from power. #Belarus#Ryanair#RomanProtasevich
🎧 Listen to @MarvinKalb talk about some big events, personal, national, and international—and about his new book, ”Assignment Russia”—in this endearing podcast with @jaynordlinger. [@NRO]
https://t.co/JKNtkHA6bC
Starting now - hear about @MarvinKalb's experiences as a foreign correspondent during the height of the Cold War. "There was a wonderful story about Russia that had to be told - a story that's also about America." https://t.co/MgdSqQFZT6
📣 Speaking with @NPR, @MarvinKalb said Alexei Navalny, who ended his hunger strike today, is the first dissident w/ social media behind him. "But whether he can take that soft power and translate it into hard power... that is something yet to be written."
https://t.co/ecjlvmFMPp
🎧#ICYMI - Based of my experiences as a foreign correspondent, I spoke with @NoelKing@NPR@MorningEdition about how Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fits into the history of political opposition in the Soviet Union and Russia. https://t.co/FryUG9Kq9i
"I wanted the #book to be an opportunity to share the excitement I felt, anticipating going to Russia, being in Russia, and covering so magnetic a political leader as Nikita Khrushchev." - esteemed journalist @MarvinKalb in his #author Q&A with his daughter @deborahkalb
Thanks for following @MarvinKalb's conversation with @EJDionne on his new memoir #AssignmentRussia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War. Full video will be available here: https://t.co/doou2sXEGb