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What’s a pathological optimist to do when all about her is despair?

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Naomi

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 →

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Trump Trauma Semi-Redux

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Naomi

Election night, I left Steve Kornacki for a French Netflix series — unfortunately, about an election. Fortunately, the underpinnings were so corrupt, so overloaded with weird electoral methodology, I couldn’t draw comparisons to us and develop an associate depression. I … Continue reading →

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They are thieves and I am furious

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Naomi

Pretty much every day I get mad. Yesterday, it was this in the Times, written by Erica Green: Charter Schools, Some With Billionaire Benefactors, Tap Coronavirus Relief Charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run, are securing coronavirus relief … Continue reading →

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