Please read Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
Letter to the Marblehead Reporter by Jack Weltner We hope that someone will save us from the Corona virus. Maybe our government? There was an office overseeing the US response to possible global pandemics, until last year when John Bolton fired the global health security team. This is only one example of the hollowing […]
Continue ReadingFrom Sheila Kennedy, March 1 Oh, Indiana! Ours is a state so gerrymandered that control of our legislature remains firmly in the hands of a Republican super-majority. To say that the lack of competition has given us state lawmakers who reflect the party’s ideological extremes would be an understatement. So what is the “World’s Worst […]
Continue ReadingFrom Robert Reich on Inequality Media – 3/1 excerpt Koch Network – Trump follows their strategy Trump has taken several other steps, all of them backward. He has eliminated a National Security Council position that coordinates responses to pandemics. He has ignored an expert panel’s warning that the US is badly unprepared for global health […]
Continue ReadingWould William Barr reverse The Emancipation Proclamation? 3/1 Heather Cox Richardson In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters’ Convention on February 26, Attorney General William Barr said “Politics is everywhere. It is omnipresent. Why is that?” His answer was illuminating. He believes we are in the midst of a conflict “between two fundamentally different […]
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