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This essay from the New York Times explains clearly what is going on with the fevered support for President Trump by his core supporters, no matter how hard he tries to turn the presidency into a dictatorship. They want him to keep trying. The all-powerful leader at the top of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Guardian Yesterday’s message? It was a sad day for the country but a good day for  Constitutional democracy. The Democrats greeted the  approval of two Articles of Impeachment with the solemnity and gravity the event warranted. Donald…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After an expected vote for impeachment in the House of Representatives, the fate of Donald Trump will move to the U.S. Senate, where the prospects for the triumph of Constitutional values are bleak and where GOP stalwarts like…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The author of The Underground Railroad has done it again, this time with a story of a prison-like reform school in Florida.  Worse-than-Dickensian abuse occurred throughout this narrative, based on the real-life…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.  If you enjoyed Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge , you will love reading Olive, Again, the sequel. Oh, to be able to write like  Elizabeth Strout! Olive is sui generis……..except I find in…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump would like the world to think that the Democrats are so committed to impeaching him that the important work of the country is not being touched.  But there are elected officials, including officials in high…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts voters who care about climate change will want to return Ed Markey to the U.S. Senate.  He has worked on the issue for decades, well before many  of the rest of us were taking seriously the impact…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Massachusetts Governor was halfway through his second term. While things were going reasonably well, he was still dogged by dramatic shortcomings in the Department of Children and Families, fraud at the state drug lab, and incompetence with…