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Richard Wexler

A German television drama, and its de facto sequel, look at life before, during and after the wall

Before the review, a plea: These are great series — they’re also damn complicated, especially if you are neither German nor a student of…

8 min readFeb 25, 2024

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A German television drama, and its de facto sequel, look at life before, during and after the wall

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Richard Wexler

An open letter to some people I wanted to think of as friends

The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged unwavering solidarity with the Palestinians, condemned Israel’s assault on…

16 min readOct 22, 2023

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An open letter to some people I wanted to think of as friends

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Richard Wexler

We’re old, we’re bold, get used to it!

It’s a toss-up when it comes to which prejudice blazing forth from the cover of The New Yorker is more offensive, the ableism or the…

3 min readSep 30, 2023

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We’re old, we’re bold, get used to it!

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Richard Wexler

A drama from Finland explores being a journalist in a post-truth world

When police raided the newspaper in the small town of Marion, Kansas this month, a myth quickly took hold among some journalists. It was…

4 min readAug 20, 2023

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A drama from Finland explores being a journalist in a post-truth world

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Richard Wexler

A salute to Neil Burnside — the spy who got me to Malta

Contains mild spoilers about a 44-year-old television series you’ve probably never heard of — though it’s currently streaming on BritBox.

5 min readMay 28, 2022

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A salute to Neil Burnside — the spy who got me to Malta

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Richard Wexler

From Portugal with love — and saudade

About nine years ago, a work colleague and I were discussing Jess Walter’s brilliant novel, Beautiful Ruins. It’s a novel The New York…

4 min readMar 6, 2022

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From Portugal with love — and saudade

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Richard Wexler

Netflix Japanese drama “The Journalist” is ripped from the headlines — and faithful to them

At the very end of a long closing credits sequence in The Journalist, the first series Netflix has commissioned from Japan, there appears…

6 min readJan 30, 2022

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Netflix Japanese drama “The Journalist” is ripped from the headlines — and faithful to them

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Richard Wexler

African politics through an African lens

There are no white saviors in the fascinating, and frustrating, Senegalese-French political drama Wara

5 min readDec 19, 2021

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African politics through an African lens

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Richard Wexler

And to think that I saw it in my Facebook feed: A few words about those Dr. Seuss books

Last week Dr. Seuss Enterprises (DSE) decided to let six of the famed children’s book author’s books that almost no one was buying anyway…

6 min readMar 7, 2021

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And to think that I saw it in my Facebook feed: A few words about those Dr. Seuss books

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Richard Wexler

How the racial and class bias sneak into the journalism

● A New York Times Upshot story about COVID-19 and schools dresses up middle-class angst and inconvenience in the trappings of science…

7 min readFeb 12, 2021

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How the racial and class bias sneak into the journalism

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Richard Wexler

Richard Wexler

I am a reformed journalist turned child advocate. My child welfare work is here www.nccprblog.org This space is for personal observations about everything else.

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