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Texas. It’s always Texas. So why is there some good news out there?
Today, Mimi Swartz, the estimable Texas journalist, published an incisive opinion piece in the Times. She lays out the surreal realities of Texas politics and politicians, the reason why I find myself frequently muttering, “Texas. It’s always Texas.” For me, … Continue reading
Posted in Good Things Happening, Government, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged GOP, Greg Abbott, MAGA, Mimi Swartz, New York Times, Texas, tyranny of the minority
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What’s a pathological optimist to do when all about her is despair?
I just read today’s New York Times opinion section, after which I dipped into the readers’ comments, as I always do. Despair, hopelessness, monumental depression — about us, the United States. Secession, too, had its proponents among my fellow readers, … Continue reading
Posted in Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged "Pushkin Hills", Andrey Kurkov, Brown v Topeka, Chris Murphy, Jamelle Bouie, James Wood, Michelle Cottle, Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, Paul Krugman, secession, Sergei Dovlatov, The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town
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Correction: I am a one-issue voter on one issue
Women’s sovereignty, specifically our absolute right to choose what we do with our bodies. Anyone who suggests we don’t have that right is my enemy. I don’t vote for enemies.