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Kos of Dailykos.com rightly terms Governor Cuomo a Republican on matters economic, and is not displeased at the Governor’s sudden realization that he could be in for a mass defection on his left. –lowered taxes on the rich –gleeful union … Continue reading →

In perfect synchronicity, our Spring 2014 issue planes down upon the desks and library shelves of not just the U S of A, but the entire dance-loving world. Have I written anything for this issue? Yes. Direct your fingers to … Continue reading →

It’s not like Roberts didn’t blow his cover a long time ago. He’s the quintessence of judicial activism, and his zeal in leading America  back into racially segregated economically polarized aggressively disenfranchised anomie is brazen. Sotomayor in her dissent to … Continue reading →

Outrageously hiked rents mean an increasing number of vacant storefronts in the West Village.  And of course greed on this scale is frequently self-defeating in the long run: the West Village begins to look shabby, forlorn, and thus less desireable … Continue reading →

HoundDog at Dailykos.com previews Elizabeth Warren’s A Fighting Chance a week ahead of the official pub date.  Warren writes that Obama and Geithner’s apathy toward the plight of the jobless and foreclosed made her want “to scream with frustration.” It … Continue reading →

And they exhume history: For Volume 3, they’ve found something that I don’t think anyone has seen in sixty years or even seems to have remembered.

Volume 1 of New York City Ballet in Montreal has arrived at VAI’s Pleasantville headquarters.  So order from them directly, or order from Amazon and you’ll get delivery a little later this month, by which time Vol. 2 will also … Continue reading →

Tom Magstad at Nation of Change lays out exactly what’s at stake, and why & how our Supreme Court must be reformed.

Something very ugly going on: the GOP’s war on working people in this country is now–with a vengeance–seeking to pit the commonweal against anybody with an interest in culture.  As Eric Alterman reports in The Nation, Representative Trey Gowdy defamed … Continue reading →

Not that it wasn’t a done one already–the Chief Justice and his extremist, ethically-challenged court hand democracy over to the  plutocrats.