Category Archives: Capitalism

Belly laughs, anyone?

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Naomi

Oh yes, you need them. And here’s where you can get them: The 6/27 New Yorker column, “On and Off the Avenue,” by the devastatingly funny Patricia Marx, in “Tossed and Turned: Decoding the mattress disrupters.” Which begins… Before we … Continue reading →

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Does Big Dark Money buy elections?

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Naomi

Like a multitude of us, I’ve been worrying about this since Citizens United. But as I worked on How I Learned The Facts of Life, I picked up enough solid info so that I found myself backing away from what … Continue reading →

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Why is Texas’s attorney general working for Elon Musk but not for Uvalde?

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Naomi

It’s Texas. It’s always Texas. From Harper’s Weekly Review: The Texas Department of Safety asked the state’s Office of the Attorney General, which is currently investigating whether bot accounts have artificially inflated the value of Twitter*, to block the release … Continue reading →

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