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“Gestapo-style” raids on organizations mounting voter registrations drives: this is U.S. democracy, 2017 style. Greg Pallast at Truthout recounts being roughed up by Handel’s security detail, among many other charming anecdotes that reinforce that today’s GOP knows it cannot win … Continue reading →

Ira Chernus at Tom Dispatch reviews the De Young Museum’s 50th anniversary commemoration of the Summer of Love, and revisits what it was all really about: “Perhaps it’s time to take a retrospective look at that Summer of Love moment, … Continue reading →

Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo: “The Iron Law of Republican Politics is that the GOP moderates always cave. But the cave is never without a stage managed drama. And that appears to be the part of the story we’re now entering.” When “moderate” … Continue reading →

As he contemplates the steaming wreckage of his legacy? Perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea, after all, to propitiate and capitulate over and over again to the evil, seditious anti-democracy scofflaw Mitch McConnell?

His disgusting incitement of violence against Muslims is undoubtedly one cause of the murder of a 17-year-old Muslim girl in Virginia. And, since Trump doesn’t think he can exploit this hate crime for political advantage, not a word from the … Continue reading →

are all over the Senate “health care” bill. Price is opposed even to employer-based insurance plans, and they will now be subject to lifetime limits.

Why are we not surprised? The “health care” bill crafted by McConnell and his cenacle of saboteurs guts Medicaid even more than the House did in its own saturnalia of hate. And remember, health care is provided by Medicaid to … Continue reading →

When I interviewed Mikhail Baryshnikov in 2010, he told me that by the time GW Bush was elected, “New York was not as attractive to me as it was in the ‘70s.  It had become very conservative.  The young people … Continue reading →

The guys at Ring of Fire think that the reign of Fox “news” has come to an end. What I loved most about Fox was its arts coverage.

Sasse and his fellow Republicans have devoted their entire legislative agenda to creating a nanny state for millionaires and billionaires, brutalizing the poor, and cutting the ground out from beneath the middle class. Sasse was one of the most dumb … Continue reading →