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Notes from the Third Sub-Basement: High Anxiety

It is hard to please Democrats.  President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer and their teams worked for months to get…

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The Stakes are Too High to Draw the Wrong Conclusions About Tuesday’s Elections

This Times editorial board piece arguing Tuesday showed that Dems don’t want big progressive ideas ignores one small fact: The…

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The Stakes are Too High to Draw the Wrong Conclusions About Tuesday\’s Elections

This Times editorial board piece arguing Tuesday showed that Dems don\’t want big progressive ideas ignores one small fact: The…

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NOTES FROM THE THIRD SUB-BASEMENT: ELECTION HANGOVER EDITION

Post-election analysis is bad enough following a presidential election or a mid-term when there is a ton of data to…

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Letter from the Third Sub-basement: Halloween Edition

So, here we are at the end of another week.  What does it mean?  Well, what does any of it…

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If BBB Passes, Grit Your Teeth and Give Manchin (and Sinema) Some Credit

This begins regular members-only reports on what we are seeing and hearing inside Washington on domestic and international issues currently…

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The Media Has Missed the Story: Biden and the Dems are on the Verge of Another Major Success.

The New York Times does it again: “House Delays Vote on Infrastructure Bill as Democrats Feud.” On the homepage they…

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How Do We Win the War Here at Home?

With every passing day, it looks less like we have one nation divided by differing political beliefs and more like…

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In the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Simplistic Analyses are the Enemy

In an effort to combat the “four legs good, two legs bad” oversimplifications that dominate the commentary on the Israel-Palestine…

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A Lot Had to Go Wrong to Lead to This Week’s Attempted Coup

If the (erroneous) Office of Legal Counsel memo saying president’s can’t be indicted for crimes while in office had not…

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A Lot Had to Go Wrong to Lead to This Week\’s Attempted Coup

If the (erroneous) Office of Legal Counsel memo saying president\’s can\’t be indicted for crimes while in office had not…

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Why the Victory of Biden and Harris is So Moving

I have spent some time now, wondering why I have had such a profound emotional reaction to Joe Biden and…

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America’s Devastating Cultural Depression: The Time for Action is Now

Among our many looming challenges is one that has not gotten sufficient attention. The United States is in the midst…

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America\’s Devastating Cultural Depression: The Time for Action is Now

Among our many looming challenges is one that has not gotten sufficient attention. The United States is in the midst…

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Time for Dems to Get Off Their Fainting Couches

Those of you waking up this morning to a war for the soul of the American judiciary have not been…

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The COVID Disaster is Not an Act of God, It’s a Crime

Make sure to understand that the disastrous leadership failure on COVID has actually consisted of a series of equally disastrous…

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The COVID Disaster is Not an Act of God, It\’s a Crime

Make sure to understand that the disastrous leadership failure on COVID has actually consisted of a series of equally disastrous…

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Justice in America is Dead

Justice in America is dead. We used to talk about damage to it. We used to remark with each setback…

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Lost at a Crossroads in History

I just don’t get the sense we have fully grasped the profundity of what is happening all around us. History…

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This Is Not Just a Public Heatlh Crisis, It’s an Inequality Crisis

No denying that this is a public health crisis on top of (and made much worse by) an inequality crisis.…

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