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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. News of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday hit hard, but it did not come as a surprise.  She had been diagnosed with cancer five times since 1999 and fought back fiercely. When she succumbed, at the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When you’re done reading James H. Barron’s new sweeping biography and political thriller,  “The Greek Connection,” (shameless plug!)  here are some other non-fiction possibilities for the last weeks of summer. Not everything has to be about Donald Trump!…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The most discordant note in Joe Kennedy’s elegiac concession speech on Tuesday night was his observation that, even knowing the outcome, if he had to do it all over again, he would do it “in a heartbeat.” Giving…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.  RNC a gaslight convention In what universe do Trump Republicans reside?  The world embraced by their national convention is the kind of horror show I’d never pay to see, and couldn’t sit through if it were free. Cue threatening…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I voted Saturday. I responded to a universal mailing from the Secretary of State’s office, indicating I wanted a mail-in ballot.  The pandemic has blunted my decades-long pleasure of going to the local polling place and participating with…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I was never a big fan of Kamala Harris when she was running for President.  Yet I am surprisingly pleased by her selection to be Joe Biden’s running mate.  The former California Attorney General and San Francisco district…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. What do Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sy Hersh, Mitch Zuckoff, and Steve Kinzer and other illustrious authors have in common?  They’re all high on “The Greek Connection: the Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate.” Goodwin…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tonight the Boston Red Sox return, in diminished form but a return nonetheless. And, I confess, I’m happy about that. The game against the Baltimore Orioles offers more than a departure from news about COVID-19, corrupt politics and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Politics isn’t everything. On a holiday like July 4th, celebrating our nation’s independence and its brilliant founding documents, it is tempting to recount the myriad ways that our President has trampled on the promises made therein. Unsparingly, he…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When I found myself agreeing with President Trump that the media were making too much of his super-cautious walking down a ramp at West Point, I knew I needed a break from media coverage. Yes, he might well…