Rex Smith
Rex Smith, the co-host of The Media Project on WAMC, is the former editor of the Times Union of Albany and The Record in Troy. His weekly digital report, The Upstate American, is published by Substack."
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Maybe you don’t know what Grok is. No matter – according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, only 26 percent of Americans have heard of Grok. -
A few weeks back, I visited Scotland for the first time, and just before traveling I learned that Scotland is actually my family’s homeland – well, it was, anyway, a very long time ago.
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We’re all familiar with the saying, “You’re known by the company you keep.” Etymologists say it probably originated with the Greek playwright Euripedes, who was born 25 centuries ago – so it’s a well-established concept.
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If you don’t think America is in terrible trouble in this Era of Trump, you’re not paying attention. And so if you’re not paying attention, you also may not realize that, in fact, the resistance is gaining ground, and Donald Trump is weaker than you may think.
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A record number of Americans say that the federal government has too much power, Gallup has just reported.
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Many years ago I was the editor of a tiny daily newspaper in Indiana, in the heart of the Farm Belt. I had uncles and cousins nearby who raised corn and soybeans in soil made fertile by millions of years of glacial movement that left rich nutrient deposits.
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If you look at what’s on the shelves at airport bookstores, you figure most folks pick travel reading material that gives their mind a getaway, too. I wish I could be that person. But I inevitably find myself picking out something that I figure will help me catch up with what I should have learned a long time ago. Time away is a perfect opportunity for self-betterment, right?
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Scientists have long known that there’s a link between heredity and personality – that who we are is in part influenced by who came before us. That doesn’t give you an excuse for, say, being a jerk just because your great-grandpa was. But certain personality traits are affected by our DNA.
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Today I’d like to say just a few words about words that are not said – ways that we’re encouraged to avoid truth-telling.
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You know those photos that show a younger Donald Trump hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and some underage girls – one of them showing Trump with his hand on a young girl’s leg? Have you seen those? Yeah, well, they’re not real, folks.
