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“I’ve had more power over an audience with a silence,” Mary Garden writes in her 1951 memoirs, “than I ever had with a note. . . That’s where I would look if I went into an opera house hunting for a … Continue reading →

Their insistence that Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings go ahead despite evidence of Trump’s criminality is their rear-guard attempt to ensure legal immunity for Trump. Trump will be placed above the law.

who accepts campaign contributions from developers must automatically be disqualified from running. That has to be the new rule.

that useful idiot Sen. Collins skipped out of her meeting aflutter with excitement that Brett Kavanaugh had assured her that abortion rights were settled law — but to Sen. Schumer Kavanaugh refused to say anything at all on the subject? … Continue reading →

Last year, a vast coalition of civic and state politcos requested expansion of the Madison Square Park North historic district. Urban devastation going on in its surrounding blocks is carrying away one unprotected historic building after another. Then-LPC chair Scrinivasan … Continue reading →

Medicare For All = a savings of  $2 trillion over a 10-year period. So says even a Koch-funded think thank. But, as Ryan Cooper writes at The Week, “so far The Washington Post, The Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and CNN have absolutely beclowned themselves trying to … Continue reading →

Once again, Sen. Collins finds a way to let herself hear what it is convenient for her to hear, regardless of how blatant is her snookering. Of course, Brett Kavanaugh says abortion rights are settled law; what he will do … Continue reading →

Councilmember Rivera’s betrayal on Tech Hub is one of the most callous, cynical, and egregious put-up jobs I’ve seen in the forty-plus years I’ve been following NYC politics. A friend called up and said that Rivera had been on WBAI … Continue reading →

Like so many of the Republican office-holders boosting him, Kavanaugh is the perfect amalgam of prurient and self-righteous. When it was Clinton in the hot seat, Kavanagh wanted access to every orifice. When Trump is committing treason, Kavanaugh prefers that … Continue reading →

In the Grand Foyer of the Paris Opera? I bet the Macrons would have made it a foursome. And Beyonce and Jay Zee could have come, too. Talk about stealing Trump’s thunder. But classical culture has become an albatross to … Continue reading →