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Moustafa Bayoumi asks in the Guardian why this goes under the radar: “The circus show that is the Trump administration has, like a fireball in an air shaft, swallowed all the oxygen in the room. The administration’s endless scandals give … Continue reading →

In every possible way:  totalitarian Kavanaugh will let Trump establish himself as above the law and lead to a further erosion of equal protections of every kind. It will, Miles Mogulesco writes at Campaign for America’s Future, “delegitimize the Supreme … Continue reading →

Outright defense of treason by Dershowitz. To George Stephanopoulos: “Look, it would be good for the American public if President Trump sat down and said everything he knows, but it wouldn’t be good for President Trump.” And Dershowitz, of course, … Continue reading →

Together at the architecturally spectacular David H. Koch center at New York-Presbyterian on York Avenue.

Back in May, I was treated to a Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne. Uncharacteristically, the weather was perfect, such that I was forced to purchase a Panama hat at the concession. I confess I drank just a bit too much champagne before … Continue reading →

Jane Eyre: “Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”

Dilip Hiro at Tom Dispatch on how Trump has turned the world against us.

“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.