The common thread running through this week’s news is vulnerability — of energy systems built on complacency, of press freedoms eroded by bureaucratic indifference, of democratic institutions tested by partisan brinkmanship. The Iran war may or may not conclude in “weeks not months,” as Rubio promises. But its economic aftershocks, layered atop existing fractures in governance and civil liberties, will take far longer to resolve.
Walter Murrow
March 27, 2026
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