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What’s goin’ on

If you ever hear I've been hit by a truck, a train, or a wheelbarrow, rush to the hospital and blast this in my ear: “Mother, Mother there's too many of you crying ...”One line and I'm already yanking out my IV, then I'm dancing around the emergency room.“Brother, Brother, Brother – ...

Future uncertain: so what else is new?

Here is a political story thatĢƵ aged maybe too well, given the shaky condition of our institutions and of our democracy. It takes place in January 1934, as the Great Depression rages on.At least one person – the principal character in this short narrative – correctly sensed that the ...

Let’s cancel ‘cancel culture’

We’re now deep in the thralls of a full-blown Dr. Seuss conspiracy.ThatĢƵ according to Fox News and assorted Republicans.ItĢƵ supposedly the result of overzealous liberal thought-police, with their hopes of canceling stuff that makes them feel uncomfortable.Problem is, thatĢƵ a ...

Ending the easy-as-it-goes filibuster

On April 10, 1964, at 4:55 in the afternoon, President Lyndon Johnson spoke on the telephone with Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia about a federal judgeship.In the course of their conversation, preserved on tape and available on the internet, LBJ briefly raised the subject of the Senate ...

‘Blue collar’ Biden hails unions

At the tail end of his first 100 days in office, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a measure that afforded working men and women the right to join unions of their own choosing. The act was revolutionary. No union leader took it more to heart than the United Mine Workers’ John L. Lewis.The ...

The (non)conquering hero returns

He’d disappeared from public view, hours before Joe Biden officially replaced him as president.HeĢƵ back.Donald Trump resurfaced over the weekend.He did it with a vengeance.Who could be surprised by that?He conniption-fitted his way across that oh, so, garish stage at the recent CPAC ...