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Rather than fight to protect House members in swing districts, the Demoocratic Establishment has decided to circle their wagons around incumbents in safely blue seats who may face progressive primary challengers. As Ryan Grim tweeted, Jeffries “appears to want to … Continue reading →

Inflation could have been a winning issue for Democrats in November, had they explained its true etiology in corporate monopolization. And for a little while, it looked like that’s exactly what they were going to do. But now, as Robert … Continue reading →

Gov. Hochul’s attempt to lift all caps on building height by furtively slipping it into the must-pass state budget is awful enough. But there’s more. Albany is pushing for–this began with Gov. Cuomo– a mega re-development of the midtown Penn … Continue reading →

Writing for TomDispatch, retired lieut. colonel William Astore noes the irony of what our wars waged allegedly to spread democracy have wrought here at home.

Chauncey De Vega, who has always been clear-eyed and prescient about Trump, Trumpism, and what they represent, writes in Salon: “Americans who support democracy must now accept that elites and other political leaders will not save them. In fact, they … Continue reading →

as the Trumps? Every day the outrages go on: garishly made up Lara Trump spews racist lies about Black Lives Matter on Fox –garsihly made up and senile Trump attacks Biden’s mental capacity in some promotional video with Bill O’Reilly, … Continue reading →

to please ever-elusive, ever-contradictory, endlessly-proficient-at-fatuous-sophistry Joe Manchin. We’re seeing a redux of the defensive panic that plagued the Obama administration. Manchin is being paid by major GOP donors to sandbag Biden’s agenda. Once again, progressives have to draw the line. … Continue reading →

Fance lobbied hard to have this hideously dangerous, expensive, and altogether regressive technology classified as green by the EU. The EU is not in the forefront of climate crisis mitigation.

I attended my first opera performance. Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” at the Metropolitan, sitting in the Dress Circle, listening to Leontyne Price, Carlo Bergonzi, Cesare Siepi, Kostas Paskalis, Fernando Coreno, led by Michelangelo Veltri. It was an altogether intoxicating … Continue reading →

Hochul is one more elected official dedicated to giving developers whatever they want–and the cost to our cities be damned. She has thrown her support behind the developer-backed plan to allow residential buildings of any possible size to be built. … Continue reading →