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What about figurative masks? In the sense that every time a performer impersonates someone they are assuming the mask of that alter-identity. Even though in most performing traditions the mask is only notional, and the actor is trying to make … Continue reading →

Maggie Haberman’s petulant snits whenever mistakes in her reporting are corrected need to be curtailed.  If self-curtailing won’t work, adult supervision is required. Learn to admit your mistakes, Maggie–it’s far more instrumental in the end. Kumail Manjiani tweets: “I asked … Continue reading →

Instead of their craven tut-tutting over Michelle Wolf, why can’t/won’t the “mainstream” “news” media do more than call the competing speech Trump made any more ominous than “freewheeling”? Mark Sumner at Daily Kos breaks down just how ominous Trump’s words … Continue reading →

As John Nichols tweets: “American journalism is in crisis, under attack and literally shutting down across the vast news deserts of a country where citizens are no longer getting coverage that is sufficient to sustain democracy. So DC journalists have … Continue reading →

2010, 2014, 2016, one statehouse after another. . . despite their gains during recent special elections, if they put more standard-issue corporate Dems on the ballot in November, they’ll get wiped out all over again. Get your hands off the … Continue reading →

Heaven forfend they might articulate the hope that spiritual values animate public policy.

The GOP party line is now that any attempt to oppose Trump in any way will spell electoral ruin for a Democratic senator. Thus Trump & Sen. Cronyn’s yelping about the defeat Sen. Tester will allegedly be delivered because he … Continue reading →

New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has in recent years turned into an advocacy group for development. As the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation writes, LPC has “approved demolitions, alterations, and new construction in historic districts and changes to individual … Continue reading →

Chauncey DeVega writes in Salon: “America’s crisis in civic literacy, political polarization, rampant anti-intellectualism, deeply embedded sexism and racism, greed, broken schools and weakened democratic institutions, as well as a hollowed-out public sphere where people confuse celebrity with human worth, … Continue reading →

Why is the Mayor opposing landmark status for the Third and Fourth Avenue corridors south of 14th Street? Because he and Deputy Mayor Glen and, of course, the developer vultures, intend to level those beautiful, historic buildings still standing to … Continue reading →