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The Manhattan Borough President has to know that she can’t just talk the talk but must indeed walk. Somewhere. In some direction. We need to demand that she take a stroll. I hope she walks down Broadway from 14th street … Continue reading →

On development issues as well as public education, there are now, at best, distinctions w/o a difference. Diana Ravitch describes De Blasio’s betrayals of public education and capitulation to private charters.

His latest utterly fact-and-logic free stemwinder in Philadelphia demonstrates, once again that he is an existential danger to American democracy and to global humanity.

Tchernichova when talking to [complaining to] Baryshnikov about his lieutenant (often more than that, practically deputy ABT director at times) Charles France used to, in the late-1980s, mock-Russify and feminize his name into “Charlita Franzovna,” which Misha found hilarious!

Sen. Schumer is doing nothing to stop the passage of the bank deregulation bill, about which Sen. Warren is crying foul. Minority Leader Schumer is allowing Democrats to ensure passage of this disgraceful bill, which totally undermines the Dems’ claim … Continue reading →

when it comes to preserving neighborhoods and affordable housing. The Midtown East scam, the Mayor’s refusal to stop the Rizzoli demolition, his reluctance to ensure that new zoning protections accompany the proposed Tech Hub on 14th Street–when it comes to … Continue reading →

as I sat watching Shuffle Along on Broadway in the summer of 2016 that those very same cast members dancing, singing, tapping were also germinating the Broadway Advocacy Coalition. Why don’t we let them tell the story, as they do … Continue reading →

He jump-started America’s plunge into the Trumpapocalypse, argues James Carroll persuasively at Tom Dispatch.com “The Crusades were, of course, a centuries-long medieval catastrophe. Bush’s Global War on Terror, in contrast, has already wreaked comparable havoc in a paltry 17 years, … Continue reading →

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos has a good laugh over the Washington Post op-ed in which Charles Koch, who as McCarter notes, is “the guy who with his brother has bought the whole Republican House conference and about a third … Continue reading →

So the Democratic senators betraying their constituencies and their party don’t like being called out by Sen. Warren for rolling back the mild regulations of the Democratically-propelled Dodd-Frank bill? You know what you can do with yourselves. A lot of … Continue reading →