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Christ Hedges writes at Truthdig: “The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law. Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.”

According to Politico, “Leaders are also reminding members that, under the bill, insurance companies could only charge people with pre-existing conditions more if they have a gap in coverage. If they remain on insurance, they cannot be charged more than … Continue reading →

“Fox’s constant taunts about liberal bias have made news outlets so anxious and defensive they now spend as much time examining themselves as a body-dismorphic teenager, asking, ‘Oh, my God—does this story make me look liberal?’”

The Trump administration is depraved from stem to stern. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Trump’s bombimg Syria is “after-dinner entertainment.” And no, that’s not funny.

Did you see him with John Dickerson this am?

In The New York Times, Roslyn Sulcas wrote recently that “gloom pervaded” the ballet world of the 1980s and 1990s, gloom purportedly dispelled by the three choreographers whom she interviews in a piece entitled “Three Kings of Ballet Choreography.” That … Continue reading →

I just started reading The Education of Henry Adams. No sooner was I into chapter 1 than Adams was reminding me that “the practical value of the universe has never been stated in dollars.”

The Barker-in-Chief forecasts confrontation ahead with North Korea. Sealing the deal, however, will undoubtedly depend on Trump’s approval ratings at home.

One reason the people around Trump are so shady–apart from the curtain of shade he casts–is that Trump only respects people who game the system. That’s what a “winner” does, right? And in addition, Trump’s cabal of con men and … Continue reading →

Congressman Jamie Raskin passionately defends artistic expression in the face of the House  GOP’s censorship of a student canvas.