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is more new buildings of greater height, but apparently something called the East Midtown Steering Committee, connected to the NYC Planning Commission, is trying to push through new zoning to allow just that in an already monstrously overdeveloped neighborhood. To … Continue reading →

Wilbur Ross’s effusions over demonstration-free Saudi America is so telling. That was a Freudian slip.

I mean, why would the MSNBC head want to retain ratings champ Lawrence O’Donnell? Corporate media is about championing ideology at least as much as profit.

Ailes, writes Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone “is on the short list of people most responsible for modern America’s vicious and bloodthirsty character. “We are a hate-filled, paranoid, untrusting, book-dumb and bilious people whose chief source of recreation is slinging … Continue reading →

“We were so lucky: we were in exactly the right place at the right time. . .” So did Maria Tallchief tell Tanaquil Le Clercq years after their dance careers were over. So did Tallchief recount this to me in … Continue reading →

Of course we had no idea what was going on. . . yes it was right under our noses, and we were active players, but you know, our set was engaged in a lot of bridge tournaments. . . Pence … Continue reading →

is, of course, Trump’s favorite. As John Nichols tweets: “In the 1960s & 1970s Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon plotted to implement what they called’A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News.’ It worked.”

Of course Trump bombed Syria today. Will the “mainstream” media roll over once again?

His conception of “national unity” is the same as the GOP version of “bipartisanship”: total submission to their wills. And this an aspiring dictator and a political party that does everything it can to fracture and divide the American population–alienating … Continue reading →

For corporate-land leaders, it seems to be: do as much damage to your company as possible, and then get paid in inverse proportion to the damage you’ve been able to do.