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The daily Trump scandal, courtesy Jeff Sessions

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Naomi

From 538 Significant Digits: $1,395 Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself yesterday from any investigation the Justice Department carries out regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. The announcement came a day after the revelation Sessions had met with the … Continue reading →

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The Facts of Life regarding American immigrants

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Naomi

Below is a letter I sent a month ago to Eduardo Porter, a New York Times journalist, who has written about the American economy and the effect our undocumented workers have upon it: Dear Mr. Porter: A number of years … Continue reading →

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The Facts of Life: Trump, the news media and truth

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Naomi

Two excellent articles today in the New York Times, that delve into and critique Trump’s “enemy of the people” line about the news media. (Jim Rutenberg, in his The Mediator column, linked second here, uses the word “gobbledygook.” I love … Continue reading →

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