About Craig R. Whitney
Craig R. Whitney spent his entire professional career as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor at The New York Times, where he was assistant managing editor in charge of standards and ethics when he retired in 2009. Before that he was the night editor from 2000 to 2006.
He started working at The Times in 1965 as an assistant to James Reston in the Washington Bureau, after working part-time for two years at The Worcester Telegram in Worcester, Mass.
Unraveling Time
“Unraveling Time” is the story of how an American foreign correspondent and a news magazine office manager in Germany grew up on opposite sides of the Atlantic, met, married, and started a family in Bonn in the mid-1970s, and then experienced history in Moscow, New York City, Washington, London, Bonn and Paris before returning to Brooklyn in 2000. It was a turbulent, inspiring time, with the war in Vietnam, then the collapse of communism in Europe and the coming together of east and west in the European Union, followed by dementia: the 9/11 attacks, the disastrous American invasion of Iraq, and the unending worldwide war against terrorism. Dementia then struck this family in a personal way, an unraveling made bearable by enduring love and these memories.
Published November 2016.
TRUMP AND REALITY
Published January 26, 2026
Donald J. Trump’s presidency is the greatest threat to American democracy, to its Constitutional government, and to its national security since World War II. Trump acts and speaks as if he were a dictator like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin, unconstrained by anything or anyone but himself. “My own mind….it’s the only thing that can stop me,” he told The New York Times in a long interview session early this month.
Trump’s view of the world came across as a megalomaniacal mishmash in two seemingly endless televised public appearances this past week, in the White House in Washington and then at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Then he inaugurated a “Board of Peace,” with himself as its all-powerful chief, to help him reshape the world as he thinks it should be, starting by rebuilding war-torn Gaza.
Trump acts and speaks as if he were a dictator like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin, unconstrained by anything or anyone but himself. “My own mind…. it’s the only thing that can stop me,” he told The New York Times in a long interview session early this month.
Is Trump disconnected from reality? Continue reading...
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