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In The Nation, Eric Alterman writes: “When Trump was the host of The Apprentice, according to a supervising editor on the series, the editors’ ‘first priority on every episode…was to reverse-engineer the show to make it look like his judgment … Continue reading →

His insistence — ditto for sleaze James Carville — that this week’s Biden-Sanders debate be cancelled tells us how panicked the Democratic establishment is that Biden’s actual positions and record will be exposed.

that will result from Biden’s likely defeat by Trump is that it will definitively vanquish the corporate Democratic establishment. They will become pariahs. Biden’s derelict, retrograde qualifications represent a regressive fight from reality–the kind we thought only the Republicans are … Continue reading →

Their loyalty is only to Big Business, as they proved again today by blocking the Democrats’ emergency bill guaranteeing paid sick leave.

Why we are unprepared to combat epidemic: Bob Hennelly at Salon: “By every measure, this most essential system upon which our biological well-being rests has been permitted to fall into the same state of ruin and disrepair that we see … Continue reading →

It’s wonderful that so many non-profit cultural institutions want to go into public schools and conduct interactive arts exposure, but it simply cannot take the place of an integrated public school curriculum. As our public school systems have jettisoned art, … Continue reading →

How can his cult keep the faith? When will their fever finally break? Their president tells Americans with coronavius to go to work and things will all just work out? For the sake of America, Trump must be quarantined.

Oh, and don’t worry, he’ll make a few “tweaks” in the system. So this is the level of inane surrogate Bloomberg can summon?

EITHER: the people who have brought the Democratic Party to this point will succeed in ramming through a Biden nomination, and he will lose, as the Democratic base once more refuses to come out and vote PARTICULARLY if Biden goes … Continue reading →

Obama does what he never should have done: intercedes in the Democratic primary process. Obama was recently excoriated by Ralph Nader for refusing to participate in the way that he should be: in a refutation of Trump and the GOP. … Continue reading →