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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Observercast

The Star-Crossed Romance Between Amazon And NYC

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BY FROMA HARROP So Amazon chose Valentine’s Day to announce its breakup with New York City. No, it will not build a new headquarters in Queens as planned. Who is to blame for the split, the tech behemoth or grouchy New Yorkers? If one must choose, I’d say Amazon. Amazon seemed shocked that the masses […]

A Bountiful Harvest Takes Work

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Campaigns end on Election Day. Movements don’t. Voting day is a time stamp for measuring our progress, and when the polls closed last Nov. 6, it was clear that the intensive organizing by grassroots groups throughout 2017-18 had paid off. But let’s not forget that it’s all the days in between elections that […]

Time For Democratic Pushback On Radicals

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BY FROMA HARROP Outsize attention has been paid to outlier Democrats making outrageous remarks. They are a small handful of House Democrats, though you’d never know it, given all their headlines. The dominant names – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota – are newly elected “women of […]

And The Winner Is …

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH It used to be that people complained that the process for selecting the nominee was starting earlier and earlier – straw polls over a year before the inauguration! So, at least on the Democratic side [and since much of this is state law, the two systems have more in common than they […]

First, She Made Us Listen

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BY JOE CONASON Whatever Congress may do in the weeks and months to come, the introduction of the “Green New Deal” resolution is a major victory for climate advocates and its principal sponsors, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Sen. Edward Markey, D-MA. For the first time in years – perhaps for the first time ever […]