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I saw New York City Ballet’s penultimate performance of Balanchine’s Orpheus. Penultimate for this season, that is.  It was the second time I’d seen it this season. I hope they bring it back. One of the reasons the audience doesn’t … Continue reading →

Which are anatomized by Paul Krugman in yesterday’s Times. Call them an out-of-touch billionaire who doesn’t want to pay his fair share of income taxes. QED.  Case closed.

and spent years working for his Dad (Mick’s the self-made, bootstrap type) in his scandal-plagued real-estate business. Then he hooked his talons into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, shredding their protections for victims of financial fraud. He’s perfect, then, to … Continue reading →

Last month, Grace Ashford in the Times reported on the extremely lax and lenient approach that NYC agencies have taken toward hideous abuse by NYC landlords. The irony is that it is primarily rent-regulated tenants who dare complain about intolerable … Continue reading →

Walter Srebnick’s four-part seminar on Alfred Hitchcock.

Andy Rowell at Oil Change International: “The numbers do not lie: Trump is killing his voters. Trump is making our kids sick. Trump is killing the planet, at the same time as giving his polluting friends in the fossil fuel … Continue reading →

Sen. McConnell knows that he and the GOP can no longer win elections legitimately–they have become too extreme, too subversive to U.S. democracy. Therefore his squawking and his preposterous Washington Post editorial hissy-fitting about Democrats’ proposals to make American democracy … Continue reading →

Another ludicrously puffed-up oligarch without a clue  about what the overwhelming majority of Americans experience. How long does anyone think the Starbucks King’s candidacy could stay on its feet when faced with the fusillade of Harris-Warren-Brown-Sanders artillery??

He’s all for standardization, homogenization, pay some benefits but keep salaries scraping rock bottom. The King insists that our national debt is the reason that we can’t afford social programs, but that wouldn’t have anything to do with the taxes … Continue reading →

That’s why they’re stamping their Berlutti-Alessandro shoes and saying No, no, a million times No to Warren and Sanders for president. Jake Johnson reports at Common Dreams.