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One really doesn’t know anymore: here a gulf, there a gulf, and we’ve been continuously at war for almost a century now.

Flanked by war criminals, clinging ever-more tenuously to power as well as sanity, Trump prepares a Hail Mary attack on Iran in the hopes of once again avoiding accountability for his criminal actions. The criminal actions he’s already taken, I … Continue reading →

“I know that my parents, the very people I was supposed to trust, I didn’t quite trust. When I was very young my mother told me a joke, which I well remember thinking was mysteriously not in any way funny … Continue reading →

on my father’s mother Sallie. You read about her in “Sallie and Joe” in Ballet Review in 2011. Now, my father Joseph writes about her in his autobiography, “Out of Time.” This is the first half of a chapter. I … Continue reading →

The chronically-underfunded Landmarks Preservation Commission is now being disabled and held hostage by Mayor de Blasio. We see on a daily basis historic nineteenth-century buildings being demolished to make way for more condo and office towers that service the Tech … Continue reading →

She campaigned on her opposition to the Tech Hub scam, then at the last minute she hopped on the bandwagon and sold out her constituents. One of the city’s most historic neighborhoods is now being leveled to extend Silicon Alley, … Continue reading →

Richard E. Frankel at Salon charts the direct line of descent to Trump’s attacks on the media. Trump, the embodiment of fakery, rails against the “fake news” (.i., truth and reality). HIs Fascist electoral cult responds by crowing Nazi buzzwords. … Continue reading →

says that he won’t accept any campaign contributions from real estate developers in his upcoming mayoral run.

As Norman Solomon writes not only did he vote for the Iraq fiasco, he was complicit in it: “During the lead-up to that vote, in August 2002, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he presided over sham hearings—refusing to … Continue reading →

when they’re being interviewed. Sit still, cinmematic luminaries. Watch Tebaldi’s 1967 interview on the Bell Telephone Hour. Interesting that Meryl Streep doesn’t squirm when she discusses Callas.