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Josh Hoxie writes in Fortune: “Gandhi taught us that a country’s greatness is measured not by its richest, but by how it treats its most vulnerable members. By this measure, the U.S. is a certified shithole.”

Anders was sitting in a chair upstage. Lawrence was downstage. They were both in evening dress after a wee-hours jaunt going AWOL from a party that Lawrence’s marital disgruntlement had soured her on hosting. Anders’ “I love you,” followed Lawrence … Continue reading →

No, I don’t mean the right wing this time. I’m thinking back to Broadway, 1939, and Samuel Raphaelson’s Skylark on the stage of the John Golden theater. Gertrude Lawrence was starring opposite Donald Cook and Glenn Anders. Cook was her advertising-executive husband, … Continue reading →

As part of the battle without quarter that Trump is waging on American democracy, he slams the Peter Strozk-Lisa Page email exchange as treasonous. Was what Strozk said about Chelsea Clinton treasonous as well, Herr President? This is Trump’s America, … Continue reading →

She is shameless and shoddy in coming up with bogus metrics and rationale for her attack on Medicaid recipients. At TalkingPointsMemo, Alice Ollstein counts the ways that the CMS administrator scam artist and her accomplices in Trumpland is preying on … Continue reading →

Michael Lindon, Roosevelt Institute: “There is perhaps no better example of the moral rot at the core of the Republican Party than imposing so-called ‘work requirements’ on sick Medicaid recipients just weeks after passing a massive tax cut for rich … Continue reading →

So Trump’s calling Hillary his “opponent,” and lying about every topic he belches out words concerning, from Hillary’s FBI interview to the capacity of alternative energy. The man is trapped in some sort of dementia feedback loop; the tape plays … Continue reading →

Today’s installment in his active obstruction of justice: He demands that the “Republicans should finally take control” of the investigation.

Marvelous series of photos of Ashton rehearsing Illuminations at NYCB in 1967 as well as the performance on stage — by Martha Swope, posted in the Library for the Performing Arts Digital Collections. Here’s Mimi Paul w/Ashton. John Prinz and … Continue reading →

In Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens, of course, gives Grassley the pseudonym of Pecksniff, and writes: “It was a special quality, among the many admirable qualities possessed by Mr Pecksniff, that the more he was found out, the more hypocrisy he practiced.”