In the last 24 hours, the Supreme Court has made it easier to kill people as long as it's with a gun, but it has barred women from removing from their own bodies embryonic or fetal material not viable as human beings-- even if caused by rape or incest. SCOTUS has taken a wildly absolutist …
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Op ed alert. Jim Barron, author of The Greek Connection: the life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate, is part of The Washington Post's 50th anniversary coverage of the infamous bungled burglary in today's edition of the newspaper that broke the story 50 years ago today. Check out his article on the …
Want to escape temporarily from news stories about the carnage in Ukraine, the originalist black hole of the Supreme Court, accelerating inflation and the toxic swill of MAGAism? Here are four novels with the potential to take you away from it all. The Rent Collector by Camron Wright is a gift for lovers of literature, …
Hiding out from the headlines? These non-fiction selections may not transport you above the gloom emanating from the news media, but they may illuminate contemporary themes in a deeply satisfying way. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder picks up from his previous book Red …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 