For endless months we have listened to commentators bellow about the Republican Party being utterly, indisputably broken. It is. But from the first moments of the Biden-Trump debate, it’s been clear to me that my Democratic Party is also pitifully broken.…
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Reds — the title of Warren Beatty’s Bohemian/Bolshevik love story that features John Reed and Louise Bryant — is also the title of Maurice Isserman’s new book subtitled, “The Tragedy of American Communism.” Issermam is…
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The state Controller’s Office says Mendocino County Board of Supervisors shoulders significant blame for the chaos gripping county finances. State auditors specifically cite the board’s failure to conduct a “risk assessment” of its controversial consolidation…
If Flaubert was Madame Bovary, then Handel was Partenope. She is the title character of his 1730 opera, a big hit in its time, but then spurned for supposed tawdriness over the ensuing 250 years.…
There was a time in the good ol’ USA when manufacturing was booming, factories were humming and workers were making things on assembly lines. “Things” weren’t all that workers were making, because money was also…
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