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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After the failure of last week’s Senate vote on creating an independent commission to review the events of January 6th, attention has increased on the need to do something to end or modify the filibuster. Sadly, Democratic Senator…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In what rational universe could a democratic institution have 54 votes to advance an idea and 35 votes against, and the proposition fails? It would also have failed if there were 59 votes for it and just one…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips is a first novel set in the isolated Russian peninsular community of KamChatka, after the demise of the Soviet Union.  It’s hard-scrabble living even in its principal city of Petropavlovsk.  The story grabs…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Will in the World : How Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt This impeccably researched book has been called one of the best books ever about William Shakespeare.  I haven’t read them all, or even most. Still, I can…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today marks four months since the US Capitol was stormed by a mob intent on blocking Congress from accepting the Electoral College win for President Joe Biden. Inside the Capitol, a smaller mob of 147 Republicans, also seeking…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barrons own blog. If you expected President Joe Biden to be a stuttering old man with a puzzled look on his face and wearing Depends, you may be disappointed. In his first 100 days and in his first speech to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The April 9, 2010 cover of Time Magazine still shocks. Eighteen-year-old Aisha, her nose cut off, was an all-too-common example of why we were told then that the United States should not leave Afghanistan. After Aisha had run away from…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The pictures grip our hearts; the policies spin our heads.  Curbing the current flow of migrants at our southern border requires massive coordination, especially with the Northern Triangle nations of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. This means thinking…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The images from our southern border are disturbing. Watching hundreds of children and other would-be asylum seekers crowded into facilities meant to hold far fewer and only briefly is unsettling. It’s hard to shake the video clip of two men dropping a three-year-old and five-year-old over…