To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Age Problem
BY SUSAN ESTRICH It’s against the law to discriminate in employment. As an old lawyer, I firmly subscribe to the canon of young doctors and old lawyers. And old legislators, some of the time. Nicholas Pelosi would the King of the Hill, and no one would be commenting on his clothes. It should be called […]
Responding To Domestic Terrorists
BY FROMA HARROP It surprised few to learn that Robert Bowers, who is charged in the massacre of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue, was a social misfit and psychotic wreck. Most domestic terrorists are. They latch onto some extreme ideology to obscure the mess in their head. It can be hard to focus on […]
Of Willie And Luis, And The Politics Of Hate
BY SUSAN ESTRICH In 1988, Lee Atwater, George Bush’s campaign manager, vowed to make “Willie Horton” [real name, William Horton] Michael Dukakis’ running mate. And he did, with the help of Larry McCarthy and an ad that featured a terrifying mug shot of a black murderer who had been released from prison on a weekend […]
The Far Right Is Far More Dangerous
BY JOE CONASON Confronting acts of domestic political violence, the conditioned response of major media outlets is to blame “both sides,” signaling their own supposed neutrality amid intense national polarization. Some voices even attempt to equate loud speech or angry words in restaurants to the murderous spray of an assault rifle. But to pretend that […]
Funny How The Stock Market Tweets Come And Go
BY FROMA HARROP After a long absence, another “Stock Market up” tweet was issued last week by Donald Trump. He’d been the troubadour singing his own praises when the Dow Jones industrial average hit new highs, but when falling stock prices wiped out most of the gains for 2018, the music stopped. He was back […]
