Gwen Flanders

Democracy is in danger of ending in less than two years, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warned a packed National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Tuesday. "We're electing illiberal leaders democratically," citing upcoming elections in Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the United States and probably Canada. "We will know whether democracy lives or dies by the end of 2024." Ressa is founder and CEO of Rappler, an investigative news site in the Philippines.

September 01, 2021 Journalism is not a crime. That theme echoed through a panel discussion Tuesday at the National Press Club as Latin American journalists called attention to government repression of reporting in their countries. In the past 20 months, at least 27 journalists have been killed in Latin America, said panel moderator Dagmar Thiel, chief executive of Fundamedios, an organization that promotes free expression and human rights.

Back in 1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was ripped off big time: paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and others worth a total $500 million. A quarter of a century later, longtime Boston columnist Howie Carr says the FBI has tagged the perps who did the deed. Carr, citing "multiple law enforcement sources" he doesn't name, writes in Breitbart News that the FBI has fingered ex-con George Reissfelder and a guy named Lenny DiMuzio.