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How can the electors possibly install Trump? His inflammatory, categorical denials about Russian interference tell us all we need to know about how he was “elected,” as much as do the assault on the recounts. And the people around Trump … Continue reading →

On January 16, I’ll be interviewing Mimi Paul and Edward Villella for the Balanchine Foundation, after they rehearse their old roles in Balanchine’s Bugaku with New York City Ballet’s Maria Kowroski and Jared Angle. Bugaku was created in 1963 for … Continue reading →

It’s all gotten so excessive. I mean, honies, what type of message do you think you’re sending about yourself when everything is new and everything is some type of fashion statement? Where do you fit in? Be free, be confident. … Continue reading →

Josh Marshall writes at TalkingPointsMemo: “Trump’s administration ends up being made up of plutocrats, right wing extremists and generals. Basically, exactly what you should have expected, unless you were stupid.” Not a populist, not a genuine man or woman of-the-people … Continue reading →

Liberated from having to toe Obama’s line, he denounces to Joy-Anne Reid the seditious James Comey: “I think he should be investigated by the Senate. He should be investigated by other agencies of the government including the security agencies because … Continue reading →

Trump is indeed, as  Sanders just told Chris Hayes “a pathological liar.” [I love Hayes’s tweet last night: “I honestly, I have no idea what’s happening and everything is totally insane. Good night!”] Why didn’t/hasn’t Hillary said this about Trump? … Continue reading →

to America as well as the Democratic Party by his failure to act decisively and thus presidentialy by facing down the Republicans as they became ever more extreme? Obama leaves in his wake a chain of cowering reaching to the … Continue reading →

If the network is OK about being complicit with Trump in making a mockery of American democracy and obliterating ground rules about avoiding Presidential conflicts of interest. What is it Donald–do you need the extra money?

— Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors is? I feel positively nubile by comparison. But their age wouldn’t matter if their ideologies and mental capacities were not far older  than their chronological years. They cling to stunted, warped, reactionary views that are … Continue reading →

(and the entire world’s as well.) Unless he and his equally fanatical, stupid, ignorant climate-change deniers are stopped. Now, they are poised to purge the Environmental Protection Agency of reality-acknowledging climate advocates. Democrats: go to the American pubic. Tell them … Continue reading →