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He is quickly moving beyond the pale of legitimate legal analysis. And the fact that Trump keeps running to him for exoneration shows how desperate the president is to evade redress for his crimes.

The folly of the media and our politicians venerating Silicone Valley becomes more apparent by the day. A Zuckerberg is potentially even more dangerous than a Trump, because so much more intelligent and informed. Mehreen Kasana at Alternet snapshots Zuckerberg’s … Continue reading →

In fact, as Charles Pierce in Esquire reminds us, it “kills more people in this country than ISIS ever will.” Only the Democrats’ weakness, passivity, and silence, allows the GOP to continue to tout deregulation as something worth keeping them … Continue reading →

Given the current dearth of theater reviews in the “mainstream” media, just-launched The New York Stage Review aims to pick up the slack. NYSTAGEREVIEW.COM

Michael Corcoran at Truthout describes the way they’re licking their chops at the chance to dismantle the VA. It’s their latest coup against American democracy.

So what if the American population turns into depersonalized robots! Did you know that you can have an incredibly personal banking experience? So I was told by a placard as I walked up Broadway toward Lincoln Center last night.

Sara Mearns in Dances of Isadora at Paul Taylor this week. I saw the opening last night. It was performed with Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset, performed by her company, and with Taylor’s Esplanade–quite an event. Talk about going to … Continue reading →

A friend caught his set at the 9:30 club in Washington, D.C. Friday night–told me it was a gas. In The New York Times, Anna Cordea-Rado profiles Frahm, one of a current school of “musicians who combine elements of electronic … Continue reading →

it is Bernie Sanders, attacked by Hillary Clinton for not being a “real” Democrat, who is showing Democrats a way out of their ruinous endorsement of endless war as our bipartisan foreign policy default. Read his speech at the Move … Continue reading →

Robert Reich describes the “new and more dangerous phase” that the aspiring monarch is moving into. “A narcissistic megalomaniac who’s unconstrained – and who’s also president of the United States – is about as dangerous as they come.”