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Reich, one of the few sagacious economic advisors to Clinton, recalls the time he made Clinton’s team very angry. Reich publicly predicted the rise of Trump three decades ago–and if Hillary really, really wants to know why she lost, she … Continue reading →

aamid both the right wing’s attempt to expurgate the true history of race in this country as well as the left’s assailing the Western canon as well as the across-the-board cultural illiteracy that plagues our society as well as the … Continue reading →

“We got rid of them.” Dialogue from the ever-pertinent pen of Mr. Beckett in “Waiting for Godot.”

They’re intent on gutting a food aid program on which America’s infants depend. The corporate media is committing journalistic malpractice by letting these people pick any moniker they choose and then adopting it, thus enabling the sham they’re committing.

A sign of the derangement of Trumpworld: these two undoubtedly appearance conscious women have taken to mimic his grotesque grimaces and pouts, apparently unaware of how ludicrous and unattractive it turns their features and expressions. 

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reports on  yet another shocking but not surprising Ivy act of dishonor–think Yale firing Dr. Bandy Lee–Columbia has suspended the campus chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine. Admirably, many alum … Continue reading →

For Air Mail, I wrote a preview/review of Dianne Wiest’s return to the New York stage in “Scene Partners.”

The corporate media decides on a story line—this time, it’s Biden’s age that’s the big issue—rather than the existential danger of treasonous psychotic Donald J. Trump. The CM hammers  home the story line relentlessly. And then—imagine that!—polls start to show … Continue reading →

when they came under attack from Russia. So what are Russia and Hungary doing?  Teaming up to build more of them. Totalitarian energy policy at its worst. The Biden administration has got to stop going along with the charade that … Continue reading →

We’re in a crisis of journalism as well as a crisis of democracy.