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recounted in alarming detail by Ross Barkan in the Nation. Cuomo is not a health-care hero.

Richard Davis’s “Wotan’s Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence” is great. Mixes the personal, the professional, and the vocal analysis seamlessly. An indispensable work if you care anything about opera.

The wealthy have to stay out of government. No, I’m serious. Today’s wealthy are for the most part so out of touch with how 99% of the country live, or, indeed with most states of reality, that they scatter dysfunction … Continue reading →

“I don’t blame anyone,” the sham meister-in-chief says about his and TrumpWolrld’s months-long belittling of the corona threat. When he in fact is the biggest culprit.

The clown rictus, eyes-rolling-in-her-head lunacy. . .

John Stoehr at Raw Story explains: The president knows he doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to, and the GOP will back him up no matter how much he betrays our country. “Yes, Trump will block the states … Continue reading →

Jordan Kurker-Mraz says that the originators of cultural intersectionality never dreamed how it would be manipulated. “It’s been gentfrified: white people are using it to pick on each other!” You can read his new story, “A Guide to Life Without … Continue reading →

He tries to distract from his failure and his negligence by leveling outrageous, scattershot accusations–now it’s the apocryphal mask-hoarders. Vile, vile man–but one thing we know:he never learns, changes, does anything new, so we can always predict what he’ll say/do. … Continue reading →

Imagine that. . .a modicum of accountability for Fox. Is it possible? This fever pit of traitorous lies and hate propaganda is apparently, finally, feeing a bit of heat. Gabriel Sherman tells Joy Reid:”there’s a real concern inside the network … Continue reading →

In 1988, Francis Mason and I had lunch with Alicia Markova at the Lombardy hotel in Manhattan. Dame Alicia was seventy-seven, which seemed ancient to me at the time. But now that seems almost young given that her career seemed … Continue reading →