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Writing in Rolling Stone: “In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They’ll just ask, “So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?” Here’s the good news: We’ll at least be … Continue reading →

“What’s craziest about this whole fiasco is how shellshocked the White House appears about it. It’s as if they expected to be greeted with rose petals for ‘making the tough choices’ or whatever bullshit they want to call it today”

Go figure: the more treacherously the GOP behaves toward Obama, the more avidly he does their work for them, meanwhile making sure that he and his ostensible Party own the opposition’s most unpopular platforms.

Norman Solomon on commondreams.org reminds us there IS a tipping point: “From this spring onward, a wide range of progressive groups should be prepared to work together to effectively renounce Obama’s leadership.” I would also say, btw, that while I’m … Continue reading →

Richard Eskow at the Campaign for America’s Future rightly calls this latest self-Party-and-American people saboutage a “moral challenge” and a “wake-up- call.” Paul Krugman in his Times blog alludes to the abjectness in Obama’s character that keeps him over and … Continue reading →

“David Webb: The Quintessential American Jeweler,” will be published by Assouline.

If the Democratic party has sunk to this, what is the point of continuing to support them?  That is a question the base will be asking themselves as they don’t head to the polls in 2014.  Obama has set up … Continue reading →

“What is Even the Point of Trying to Make Pelosi Speaker?” Jon Walker at firedoglake.com asks this very pertinent question, bemoaning the Democrats’ abandonment of meaningful filibuster reform: “Until the Democratic Party decides it actually wants to govern, it is … Continue reading →

I remember our downstairs neighbor Ernestine Stewart, coming up as we watched the TV reports that night.  A woman of color, Ernestine recalled at my father’s 80th birthday party that he had helped her and her husband win approval in … Continue reading →

Just in time for you to tiptoe through the tulips: the Winter 2012-2013 issue of Ballet Review! As ALWAYS: there’s an extraordinary variety of contributions and topos, including reviews from around the world and. . . my interviews with Mimi … Continue reading →