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Good analysis, but …

Good analysis. But I would add that the decision to move forward on impeachment not only fires up the base, but also in the course of this fight the Democrats have captured the moral high ground — no one more…

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For whom does the boom toll?

Word is that the economy is booming. But one has to ask: Booming for whom? These gross economic figures don’t capture what is happening in the nooks and crannies of day to day life where people live, work, and worry.…

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Counterrevolution past and present

Not long after the guns fell silent on the battlefields of the Civil War, an experiment in interracial democracy and inequality in the states of the Confederacy began. But this experiment, as noble, just, and necessary as it was, lasted…

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Missed Opportunities

In his first speech upon leaving federal prison in the mid-1950s, Gene Dennis, the General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time, said that the main problems facing the party were dogmatism in its thinking and sectarianism in its…

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Good advice

I like this. Good advice. Beats going around this time of year and feeling pressured to be incessantly happy. Life isn’t always Good; at times, it sucks.