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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…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The holiday season signals a time for relaxation, fewer meetings, fewer blogs, and more time for friends, movies and reading. Here are some recent offerings in the latter category. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet,  draws again on…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Whew! Senator Raphael Warnock was reelected to the United States Senate, giving the Democrats a 51-49 margin. But wait! Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, concerned about holding her seat in 2024, just switched from Democrat to Independent. So the numbers…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Mid-term exuberance may be irrational, but surely we are entitled to enjoy the respite from the deep anxiety and foreboding of the days leading up to the election. The dreaded Red Wave turned into a Pink Dribble, and…