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“Barr’s overweening egotism, so flamboyantly displayed in his new book and accompanying promotional appearances, is second only to Donald Trump himself,” Heather Digby Parton writes at Salon. Barr is, as always, the same right-wing extremist he’s always been–except now more … Continue reading →

the Bush/Cheney war crimes that led directly to Trump. Twenty yeas ago my father wrote a piece recalling his year abroad at the University of Frankfurt in the early 1950s. He was disturbed by the reluctance of Germans, even liberals … Continue reading →

is deconstructed by Philip Bump in the Washington Post. As usual, Tucker aimed his venom at a woman of far greater intellect and stature than himself. Bump notes the absurdity of Tucker, “a longtime television talking head. . .disparaging the … Continue reading →

In the Guardian, Rep. Grijalva decries the drill-baby-drill propaganda ambush that the industry began lobbing at the U.S. within hours of the Russian invasion. “We can’t let the fossil-fuel industry scare us into a domestic drilling free-for-all that is neither … Continue reading →

Will the Russians continue to bombard Ukraine’s nuclear plants? The fate of Europe as well as Russia hangs in the balance. What type of “green” technology has the potential to render a continent uninhabitable?

From a correspondent who attended last night’s season premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Met: “This immense 35-year-old talent sings Ariadne at the Met now (sadly to shockingly empty houses). It is a remarkable performance, utterly devoid of artistic … Continue reading →

Old Mitch makes us all clutch our sides when he says there is no room for white supremacists in the Republican party.

His relentless, remorseless, ruthless lying has atomized America. Let students of treason and authoritarianism “so note.”

I mean, if he’s going to embark on a book-promotion blitz, he might as well face a little accountability, no? Barr betrayed this country, turning the Department of Justice into a personal law firm for Herr Trump. Barr obstructed justice … Continue reading →

On view at the CPAC conference today: while the world burns and floods around us, Trump describes global warming as “the ocean’s may rise, over the next 300 years, one one-hundredth of an inch, giving you slightly more seafront property.”