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Right now at the Times, Brad Plumer perpetuates the canard that nuclear power is emissions free. Uranium enrichment cycle, anyone?

This is what the last thirty years of public arts funding keeping its head down brings: At the very moment that the National Endowment for the Arts should be using the Public Theater’s Ceasar as a platform to inform the … Continue reading →

Can we please–once and for all–disabuse ourselves of the idea that government should be run like a business? That’s like saying I should be head of General Motors. Farren Cousins at Ring of Fire decries the delusional fallacy.

A unique fusion: the company is classically trained but totally uninhibited. I mean, if Tallulah had put on pointe shoes. . . I went to see them last weekend in Eifman’s Red Giselle and once again experienced the way they … Continue reading →

vs. Tony Blair’s is calibrated by Jonathan Cook at CommonDreams. “The corporations mobilized their entire propaganda machine to get Blair into power. And yet he managed it with only 2 percentage points more than Corbyn, who had that same propaganda … Continue reading →

Watch it try to shut down Nancy Pelosi–and watch her prevail, courtesy Now This News and Daily Kos’s Leslie Salzillo. A fitting pendant to Mitch McConnell’s harrasment of Elizabeth Warren. And then, Nota bene, McConnell continued the mind fuck by … Continue reading →

Erlanger refers with a straight face to Jeremy Corbyn’s “proto-Marxist program.” Fairness in Accuracy and Reporting identifies this piece as “a case study in how to disguise an op-ed as reporting. . . .In the report, the Times quoted eight people: … Continue reading →

And Kellyanne is shocked, shocked about it, and wants his head on a platter. Almost funny to watch the Fox and Friends apparatchiks cue her manufactured outrage. No, Kellyanne, it’s we the American people who are genuinely outraged about what … Continue reading →

This is how the game is played: do the most horrific things to a population, then whine that you’re being victimized if said population puts up any resistance. It’s Daddy Donnie’s constant tactic, and son Eric is now trying it … Continue reading →

One of the exciting discoveries I made researching my book on Tallulah was the fact that the ending of Hellman’s play that reached Broadway is not the ending that Hellman originally intended, which was performed during the try-out in Baltimore. … Continue reading →