Key PointsIran's supreme leader vows revenge after US kills top general in airstrikeSo, just who is this top Iranian general ?For many of us who watch and analyze news out of the Middle East daily, he was the world's number one bad guy.Qasem Soleimani has been in control of Iran's Quds Force for more than 20 years. His current greatest hits include helping Bashar al Assad slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people in the Syrian civil war, stoking the Houthis in Yemen's civil war, and overseeing therecently demonstrating against Iranian influence in their country.But most importantly...…Key PointsIran's supreme leader vows revenge after US kills top general in airstrikeSo, just who is this top Iranian general ?For many of us who watch and analyze news out of the Middle East daily, he was the world's number one bad guy.Qasem Soleimani has been in control of Iran's Quds Force for more than 20 years. His current greatest hits include helping Bashar al Assad slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people in the Syrian civil war, stoking the Houthis in Yemen's civil war, and overseeing therecently demonstrating against Iranian influence in their country.But most importantly...WW…

25 years ago, when I was just a year or so into my career as a TV news producer, the news director at the local station in Decatur, Illinois where I was working called me into his office. He wanted to show me an article he had written about what he thought the effects of the nascent Internet would be on American news viewers.In short, the argument in his article was that the web would eventually splinter the nation into several million subsets of people with entirely different understandings of what the "news" was on any particular day, month, or year. He warned this would threaten the...…25 years ago, when I was just a year or so into my career as a TV news producer, the news director at the local station in Decatur, Illinois where I was working called me into his office. He wanted to show me an article he had written about what he thought the effects of the nascent Internet would be on American news viewers.In short, the argument in his article was that the web would eventually splinter the nation into several million subsets of people with entirely different understandings of what the "news" was on any particular day, month, or year. He warned this would threaten the...WW…

Key PointsThere's one word to explain former Vice President Joe Biden's big turnaround from what looked like a dead-in-the-water presidential campaign just a week ago.That word is "fear."Specifically, fear of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, winning the Democratic presidential nomination, knocking establishment Democrats out of power, presenting a socialist message to the voters, and handing President Donald Trump a decisive general election victory.After Biden's disappointing showings in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, a clearly rattled Democratic Party...…Key PointsThere's one word to explain former Vice President Joe Biden's big turnaround from what looked like a dead-in-the-water presidential campaign just a week ago.That word is "fear."Specifically, fear of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, winning the Democratic presidential nomination, knocking establishment Democrats out of power, presenting a socialist message to the voters, and handing President Donald Trump a decisive general election victory.After Biden's disappointing showings in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, a clearly rattled Democratic Party...WW…