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You know, it really does seem sometimes as though the only commentators allowed to opine on world affairs in the “mainstream” media just happen to be foaming-at-the-mouth militarists. But that couldn’t really be, could it? And yet Belén Fernández at … Continue reading →

Turns out, Behrman’s End of Summer plays even better than it reads! On stage at the Metropolitan, it plays like a masterpiece of American self-portrait: a reflection on the American dilemma, the American dialectic. I went to see it with … Continue reading →

It was pathetic to see the establishment environmental organizations roll over for Obama by falling under the siren song of “access.” Yes, they got in to see the Chief, but no, their goals were in no way vigorously supported by … Continue reading →

2000 might as well be the Ice Age given the instant amnesia of the”mainstream” media, but Heather Digby Parton at Salon, on the other hand, reminds us of the GOP’s long history of election thievery and voter suppression–continuing right up … Continue reading →

Richard Eskow and Dean Baker each wonder why Chris Wallace plans to question our two beloved POTUS candidates regarding the national “debt and entitlements” despite the fact that Social Ssecurity is forbidden by law from contributing to the national debt. … Continue reading →

I’ll be speaking–OK, I’ll try not to lecture–at the 92nd Y, February 26, 2017, at 3:00 p.m.

So now Mr. Maverick, Mr. Senior Eminence, John “Batso” McCain, informs us that the GOP will continue to mug the U.S. judicial system once Hillary is elected. The GOP’s unprecedented wrecking of American governance is made possible by the Democrats’ … Continue reading →

The leaves gloriously say autumn. The weather says balmy-unto-early summer, so much that it’s stiflingly hot in the coffee shop, it’s heating system in a state of extreme conflict. And Donald Trump says there’s no such thing as global warming.

There was a spirit of niceness to the new New York City Ballet works performed Saturday mat for the last time this season. I hadn’t seen them before. In Lauren Lovette’s For Clara, at one point the ensemble exits, leaving … Continue reading →

Did you know that he’s given his archive to the Library for the Performing Arts? It includes an incredible trove of silent home movies of the Kirov and the Vaganova Institute during the 1960s and early ’70s. I was watching … Continue reading →