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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakins is a brilliant accounting of America’s slowness to embrace modern art, from the post-impressionists on. Even while Europe was enthralled by Matisse and intrigued by Picasso, those and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Optimistic. Intelligent. Articulate. Polished. Upbeat. Confident. Michelle Wu is a great look for Boston. And so was the audience for her State of the City talk last Wednesday, one year into her term as mayor. Several thousand…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. C’mon, guys. Get your act together. Another announcement this weekend of six more classified documents being found in President Biden’s Delaware home. Repeated  unforced errors from an administration that promised, unlike its predecessor, to  “bring transparency and truth back to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog.  You don’t ski? You can’t bear the cold outside? You can stay warm, cozy and energized by making friends with a book. The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis is an unraveling mystery focused on a prominent Israeli cabinet minister who,…

The following article by Fred Faust was first posted here on January 17, 2016. It is being reposted this weekend in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. By Fred Faust: Monday, January 18, 2016 at noon is the annual celebration at the Tsongas Center of the life and lessons…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. We are a nation of immigrants. Democrats and Republicans have rightly embraced this foundational story for decades. The noblest articulation is embodied in the Emma Lazarus inscription on the Statue of Liberty. It is also true that,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. It’s time to put 2022 to bed.  It was yet another Annus Horribilis with the war in Ukraine, the worst inflation in decades, some horrific SCOTUS decisions and climate-related natural disasters. The darkness was mitigated by the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. As a longtime journalist (and it’s still in my DNA), I have sometimes succumbed to the reporter’s credo that bad news is good news and good news is no news at all. Having spent a couple of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Last week’s January 6th Committee hearing, its final one, was certainly historic. Never before has a House Committee referred criminal charges against a former President to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution. Yesterday, it did just…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Scheme by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D, R.I.) is a stunning, sobering and, indeed, chilling account of how the radical right, funded by dark money, has captured the U. S. Supreme Court. It is a well-documented review of the decades-long…