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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Should people suffering with excruciating pain in the last six months of their lives have the legal option to self-administer doctor-prescribed medicine for a more gentle passing? The fight for this right has been going on for more…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For a populist President who campaigned against the foreign entanglements of his predecessors and raged against nation building, it’s stunning that he would launch a military action against Venezuela that the vast majority of Americans oppose, at least…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Incumbency combined with voter inertia are a mighty force in keeping officials in office, be they high-performing or flawed. Nowhere is this truer than in down-ballot races, when all the excitement is at the top (e.g., the 2026…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Two weeks ago, I had knee replacement surgery, so my posting will be limited through the rest of the month. Here’s a great big book to hold you over in the interim. Meanwhile, happy holidays – yes, all…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Granddaughter is a pretty straightforward novel by German writer Bernhard Schlink, translated by Charlotte Collins. The time is contemporary Germany, and Berlin book store owner Kaspar comes home to find wife Birgit dead in the bathtub, apparently by drowning. They…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. During my tenure at WCVB-TV, Channel 5, I would write an annual Thanksgiving week editorial railing at all the turkeys in our lives. Favorite targets were members of the legislature who……., drivers who…….., people in lines at the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How it Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin is a spellbinding deep dive into the irrational exuberance of the Roaring Twenties, the amassing of wealth and wild stock…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remembering & forgetting: a memoir and other pieces of my life by Miriam Spiegel Raskin is a short but impactful book by a woman who, in 1939, at the age of eight, fled Germany with her parents, Julius and Fannie Spiegel,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. An Education: How I changed My mind about Schools and Almost Everything Else is an eye-opening and deeply personal memoir, intricately wound up with the story of how our nation has been swept up with and jerked around by…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life” by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a large but rich memoir of an extraordinary career in journalism. Perhaps you remember Kristof’s coverage of the slaughter in Darfur, the bloody civil war and mass…
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