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EXPRESS DELIVERY
For Graydon Carter’s new Air Mail, I write about “French Fashion, Women, and the First World War,” the upcoming exhibition at the Bard Design Center.
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I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT
I’m waiting for the fulsome eulogies of David Koch from our ballet companies, which were among the cultural institutions Koch used as fig leaves for his apocalyptic greed and fanatical insistence that humans’ future should be sacrificed to it. What … Continue reading
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LIZ CHENEY COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM
Not a word from her or her GOP colleagues about the vile smears pouring out of Toxic Trump. The only time Liz addresses anti-Semitism is when she uses trumped-up accusations to smear the Democrats.
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WHEN MOSCOW MITCH IS IN THE MINORITY
He abuses the filibuster and the rights of the minority in order to throw sand into the gears of the legislative/judicial process. When he’s the Majority Leader, he abuses his leadership to bring Congress’s legislative apparatus to a standstill while … Continue reading
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WHEN TRUMP STARTS BELLOWING
about “the Squad” being the face of the Democratic Party (if only), Dem leaders need to make it clear that unlike the GOP, which worships at the feet of aspiring-dictator Trump, the Dem caucus has many faces and many ideological … Continue reading
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THE DEALS BIDEN MADE W/THE GOP WERE DREADFUL
His rose-colored view of the GOP makes you wonder if he was really on the Democratic side, as the man who may have been responsible for so many of Obama’s capitulations, who stood there and did nothing as Moscow Mitch … Continue reading
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NEITHER THE OBAMA NOR TRUMP ECONOMIES ARE GOOD ENOUGH
2020 Democratic presidential candidates need to keep reminding the electorate that Trump inherited what is considered a strong economy from Obama, but that in both economies the majority of jobs being created have been low-wage. Most of America does not … Continue reading
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FOX “NEWS” PERSONALITIES SURE SEEM TO TAKE A LOT OF VACATIONS
Looks ike the easiest way to pick up six or seven figures of slag these days–besides occupying the Oval Office–is to posture and demonize on Fox “News.” Every time you become so vile and objectionable that advertisers head for the … Continue reading
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I AM PRO-ISRAEL AND ANTI-NETANYAHU
So I’m very proud of the Jewish peace groups in America who are making clear that those two things are not mutually exclusive, as much as neo-Nazi supporter Donald Trump would have you believe otherwise.
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COULD DENMARK PLEASE BUY THE UNITED STATES?
Then we could have universal health care and see the Royal Danish Ballet whenever we wanted.
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