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Reflections On Another Miserable Week In America

Tonight will mark one week since Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. And what a dreadful week it’s been: bookended by the loss of a true warrior…
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Corruption is the beating heart of the Trump Administration

It’s really worth reading this NYT piece on today’s closed-door testimony by 33-year veteran diplomat, three-time ambassador, and former…
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Get Him Out

Take at look at this list from Max Boot of 18 compelling reasons why Trump “may” be a Russian asset:
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Trumpism Triumphs In The GOP

This piece by Josh Marshall I think captures a critical and deeply upsetting piece of the import of Kavanaugh’s confirmation and how he…
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Democracy At The Brink

Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post joins Charles Pierce of Esquire in calling out the fact that we are deep into a Constitutional…
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Driven to Distraction

How many times a day or week does some well-meaning pundit or soul warn darkly that “we” are being distracted from the “real” issues? Or…
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Harold Bornstein: Avatar Of A Debased Presidency

Is there a more perfect encapsulation of the degradation, fraudulence, incompetence, incoherence, thuggery, buffoonery, pettiness…
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It’s Getting Worse

It’s impossible to fully absorb how staggeringly incompetent and unfit for office Trump is, what a crisis this dreadful man has put us…
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Personal News

Sorry for the month-long absence. Work, parenting, the resistance, and other commitments can make regular posting difficult. With that…
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In Trump’s Trade War, Most of Us Lose

The NYT examines the likely effects of the tariffs on imported steel and aluminum that Trump stunned his own party and White House with on…
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