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Max Fine, one of the original program’s architects, writes The Intercept to make it clear that single-payer was very much in the cards when Medicare was established in 1965.

In 1967, she was in the studios of the New York State Theater creating Balanchine’s “pin-up” soloist in Rubies.

In 2017 she’s back in those same studios at the renamed Koch Theater rehearsing the Bolshoi in Rubies!

They perform the ballet there tonight and Sunday mat.

“I understood it was sort of the way Nijinsky was built, but much more beautiful.”

who redid the Paris street grid. Was Macron mistaken. . . or are you??

Napoleon Bonaparte was the one who braved Russia.

Let those people who want to stay employer-based do so.

There are, of course, more than enough people who don’t have that option.

Dan Froomkin tweets: “Did anyone else find the NYT Trump interview shockingly obsequious? Many opportunities to call bullshit or correct whiffed.”

But it’s not really the fault of the Times’ reporters. There is no other way to keep Trump’s attention engaged–or even to keep an interview going at all–for 50 minutes without a constant stream of, let’s call it, cynically informed enabling and massaging.

Yes, they went a bit too far.

as he pushes for a repeal bill that will induce collapse in the American health care system.

Every Cabinet and agency head is there simply to protect Trump’s flanks.

Corey Johnson’s tweeting from DC today, where he’s engaged in civil disobedience at McConnell’s office.

His jump:

“It gave the impression, even for us, as professionals, that God was pulling him up unto Himself. It would stop your breath, you would get goose bumps.”