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Way back in 1919, the poet William Butler Yeats wrote of a time when the “centre cannot hold,” and “mere anarchy” and “the blood-dimmed tide” spread throughout the world. Sounds like today, doesn’t it? And yet, as the summer of 2025 begins, I see signs that the center is making ...
Where is Barack Obama? Democrats had been frustrated that their charismatic former president had gone silent on MAGA’s march of mayhem. Where is that smooth, persuasive voice? It has risen. Obama has spoken, and Democrats would do well to take in the message. “You could be as ...
Who is that masked man? Well, there’s a chance he’s an antisemitic rioter. New York City and other jurisdictions are debating mask bans after face-coverings have become associated with acts of mayhem committed by people who hope to avoid recognition and evade criminal responsibility. ...
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, resigned from their positions on the Democratic National Committee. This could be great news. I don’t really know, because ...
Donald Trump recently wrote on Truth Social: “Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to ...
Today I want to assess Saturday’s No Kings protests in the context of American capitalism. Standing up against Trump is not only important politically and morally. It’s also profitable. Diversity, for example, is good for business. CEOs that have scaled back their companies’ diversity ...
