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From the Preface to our biography of Diana Sands: “Are you white?” the late Roger Robinson joked over the phone with Steve in 2016, soon after we began working on this project. “Are you sure?” he asked again.  Since then, … Continue reading →

And the Speaker’s plan to steal earned benefits from the poor and middle class so that he can make the wealthy even wealthier?

That’s why he keeps prating about how the terrorist offensive all comes from Iran. Leave it to Trump to create catastrophe, then use the catastrophe he’s created as a specious argument for why he should be given license to generate … Continue reading →

Boy, does he think he knows how to fake it. Hawley is one of the traitorous Christo-fascists who attempted to overthrow our democracy in 2021 and are now pretending to care about anti-Semitism. They’re doing this as a way to … Continue reading →

Could anyone please name for me a single policy position that the fast-talking huckster advocates that in any way comports with the teachings of Jesus Christ?

Trump is an anti-Semite and neo-Nazi who embraced Netanyahu because he embraces right-wing militarism wherever he finds it, and because he wanted to propitiate the evangelicals.  Everything Netanyahu (who supported Hamas for a long time) is doing in Gaza right … Continue reading →

Americans suffer from collective amnesia, something that Obama didn’t quite get, so Biden has to instead hammer home the reality that Trump can accomplish nothing but chaos and  catastrophe. No better example than the way he sabotaged our response to … Continue reading →

I mean, doesn’t humanity have more existential issues to deal with? A very progressive octogenarian I interviewed still does guest teaching. When asked recently by one school what her pronoun was, she put down: “My pronoun is Her Majesty.”

Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century reviewed by Orel Protopopescu.

A voice of sanity: ‘In a bitter, ravaged Middle East where both sides seek to out-war-crime each other – Hamas kills innocents, Israel rains down genocidal hellfire on a trapped populace – moral distortions and misinformation keep pace with atrocities. … Continue reading →