Welcome to the New “A View from the Center”

A Voice for America’s Moderate Majority

The deaths of a pope, a soccer icon, and a news trailblazer.

The birth of a new year.

A criminal referral for former President Trump, a border crisis with record illegal immigration for President Biden.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s shameful attacks on Ukraine’s power infrastructure, Elon Musk’s fall into quicksand with Twitter and Tesla.

Those are just of the stories I would likely have addressed over the last few weeks.

I haven’t, not because I’m suffering from writer’s block, but because I’ve been dealing with “tech block,” a serious reluctance to deal with new technology. Transitioning from Meta’s newsletter platform to Substack’s and creating a whole new website takes a while, no matter how easy it may be, if your brain just doesn’t want to deal. That’s true even when people are being very helpful (my thanks to Substack’s Linda Lebrun and Meta’s Silvana Ordoñez).

I must have finally succeeded, or you wouldn’t be reading this.

So welcome to “A View from the Center,” now on Substack (if you’d like to know why I’ve moved, you can read about it here).

What’s Different for Subscribers?

New subscribers: It’s great to have you. If you’re curious about what I have written, you can sample almost 100 columns on all sorts of topics (mainly politics). All those pieces can now be found at

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Old subscribers: Welcome back. For all practical purposes, you will see no major change. You will keep getting emails from me. The only cosmetic difference, which you probably won’t notice, is that they will come from another site. A more substantial change is that I may write some shorter pieces, in addition to what you’ve become used to reading.

It remains free to subscribe.

What’s “A View from the Center” About?

The new “A View from the Center” will continue with the same guiding philosophy, that Americans have a shared identity and agree on much more than they disagree. The columns will almost always highlight the opinion of the majority of Americans, as determined by scientific polls.

As I have argued for years (including here and here, columns that more extensively describe the site’s approach), I firmly believe that Americans have far more common ground that unites us than disagreements that divide us. That’s supported by extensive polling and a new study (more on that in an upcoming column). Most of us are moderates, and we see ourselves as Americans first, hoping to fashion a better country and better world. Data and experience also prove that most of us are willing and able to differ philosophically while maintaining respectful behavior toward one another.

The conventional wisdom is the opposite, as politicians, academics, and much of the national media bombard us with apocalyptic predictions. Their self-serving behavior in fueling polarization is shameful.

I’ve seen it in action, because being in the center has led to me being run over from both sides. In their anger, the extremists have accused me of being a fascist and a socialist, a progressive and a conservative, a GOP plant and a Democrat in sheep’s clothing, sometimes for the same column.

The truth is that extremists are threatened by rationality. Marjorie Taylor-Greene and her supporters are more threatened by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney than by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. The same is true for extremists on the left who rage against moderates.

However, “A View from the Center” is an illustrative title and should not be taken literally. Its objective is not to find an absolute midpoint between the extremes on every issue. The moderate majority leans right on some issues and leans left on others. But, to put it bluntly, no middle exists when it comes to confronting bigotry, fascism, communism, and threats to American democracy.

Who Am I?

I am a longtime journalist and lawyer. You might have seen me on your TVs as a network news anchor and correspondent for ABC (where I was “Good Morning America’s” news anchor), NBC, and Al Jazeera. Or you might have caught me as a local anchor and reporter in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami, for CBS, NBC, Fox, Univision, and Telemundo. I have also worked as a columnist, university professor (I’m currently the Wolfson Chair in Communication at the University of Miami’s School of Communication, where I’m also the faculty adviser for The Miami Hurricane newspaper), and online news publisher. I try to forget that I worked at law firms in New York and Caracas.

I have reported from most states and four continents, covering nearly every conceivable news event. I’ve moderated senatorial, gubernatorial, and congressional debates in Illinois and Florida, and I’ve interviewed all kinds of newsmakers: presidents and royalty, athletes and movie stars, heroes and criminals. But I’ve learned most from the hardworking people who strive to realize the American dream.

I am an old-fashioned journalist who has always attempted to be objective and fair. Have I always succeeded? Of course not. Will I always succeed? No. But I’ll keep trying. Do I have biases? Certainly, but I do my best to recognize them. One big one: I am Cuban born and partially raised in Venezuela, so I can’t completely escape the perspective of an immigrant who loves his adopted country.

One bias I don’t have is that, unlike most national journalists, I have spent most of my life outside the media centers of Manhattan’s West Side, D.C.’s Beltway, or Hollywood.

Final (or Beginning?) Words

I believe that you will find that I am fair and almost always take the side of the majority of Americans on any issue I analyze.

I have enormous respect for your opinions and often integrate them into my columns. Please express them here or on my Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/antoniomoraTV1/.

I look forward to this new challenge, and I’m grateful that you’re along for the ride with me.

Happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!