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Wouldn’t it be great —
to star Timothy Hutton in a revival of Long Day’s Journal into Night?

I’ve been revisiting Hutton, an icon of my youth.
My sister was an extra in Turk 182, which I haven’t seen yet.

The emails they sent Musk about the Twitter deal reveal the utter vacuity of those at the top of our economic tree–and their concept of “free speech” is juvenile, amoral, and subversive.

but not for his Wall Street mates.

Why did Biden renew Powell’s tenure as head of the Federal Reserve? Why isn’t Biden resisting Powell’s attempt to turn him into Jimmy Carter?

The United Nations has stepped in, pleading with Powell to stop inflicting devastating damage on the world’s most vulnerable.

Powell’s entire orientation is as pitchman for the failed doctrine of neoliberalism, which has been a forty-year calamity for the United States. He has, of course, absolutely no interest in curbing the monstrous and unchecked corporate greed that is driving inflation.

Read Thom Harman’s The Hidden History of Neolberalism.

William Rivers Pitt was an outstanding voice of conscience as well as an outstanding wordsmith.

His Truthout colleague Maya Schenwar pays tribute to their lead columnist.

Justice Alito, that has crossed a line.

Seasoned political hack that he is, Alito seeks refuge in the go-to right-wing defense: claiming victimhood.

Alito & Co. deserve every ounce of censure their betrayal of the Court, the Constitution, and America has aroused–and the outrage will only mount as the operatives on the court continue to go gunning for democracy.

Tom Engelhardt laments the demise of Henry Holt-‘s-owned by conglomerate MacMillan, which is owned by German super conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group–venturesome Metropolitan Books imprint.

As Jake Johnson reports at Common Dreams, the cost of Biden’s student relief program is a drop in the bucket compared to the subsidy that we taxpayers supply the billionaires and the Pentagon.

Why, then, does the New York Times run on its cover the headline that the price will be “steep”?

Thom Hartman goes granular on the Republicans’ systematic and systemic attacks on our country.

“Apparently they’ve lost all affection for the idea of democracy in a constitutional republic. Dictatorship now appeals to them.”

Frankly, I can’t conceive how even the Republicans I know could vote for this GOP.

They are paying him to incite violence on their treasonous cable megaphone.

Why do they get to use our airwaves for free?

Why haven’t they been deported?

So September 27 at 5:30 is when I’ll be speaking at the Hudson Park New York Public Library: “I Sat in Tallulah’s Bathtub: Tales of a Biographer.”
You can come, or you can tune in by Zoom provided that you register first!