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IN 1938, Roosevelt clarified just who have been and are today the true inhabitants of the “entitlement society.” “The first to turn to Government, the first to receive protection from Government, were not the poor and the lowly–those who had … Continue reading →

Trump’s new social media platform for propaganda, hate and lies is called, wouldn’t you know it–“TRUTH Social.”

Is that what Biden learned during his eight years as Obama’s VP? His surrender to Manchin and Sinema, two of the most greedy, selfish, and treacherous politicians in the history of the Democratic party, is all tooo familiar.

Brisk weather in Manhattan like yesterday’s and today’s was more the rule than the exception in October. Now it is more the exception than the rule. And rest assured, we’ll be soaring back into the 70s tomorrow.

that those big, dark money checks being written to them aren’t going to clear if the Exxon-dictated “bipartisan” infrastructure bill doesn’t pass. Therefore they need to get out of the wqy of the reconciliation bill.

In Air Mail, Laura Jacobs reviews “Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev.”

will cost him his presidency. Right now, the future of the Democratic Party lies in the hands of the progressives who are refusing to along with the macabre gag played on the party by a handful of corporate-owned members.

Alito’s attack on Adam Serwer is rebutted by Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: “Alito’s speech perfectly encapsulated the new imperious attitude of the Court’s right-wing majority, which wants to act politically without being seen as political, and expects the public … Continue reading →

In The Nation, Jeet Heer describes Trump as “not so much an ex-president as a pretender to the throne.”

McConnell pitches a paroxysm of fake outrage at Schumer as excuse to destroy our economy in December. Listen you Mitch — you tried to tank this country’s economy. At the last minute, your wealthy backers called in the loan because … Continue reading →