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“[T]o convince [me] to chip in $15 to [your] Senate campaign today” or any amount any day.  That appeal for a campaign contribution was just one among a seeming google of texts I’ve received from Sherrod Brown’s campaign during the last month.  I am on the sucker list...

Last weekend’s finals at “The Championships” was a disappointing closing sequel to the Roland Garros opener of the 2025 edition of “the channel slam”.  My review of the RG finals, in HL 200 (“The Roland Garros Finals and a Moment for Women’s Sports” June 12, 2025) is...

Last November while sitting Shiva with a group of Boomers in mourning for the liberal democracy that their and The Greatest Generation built, one mourner said “the people who elected Trump have to suffer the financial, environmental, health and other consequences of...

Among the scores of lies Republicans in Congress are spewing about Trump’s budget bill, there is one that has gone virtually unchallenged by congressional Democrats.  First the lie, then the why – those feckless Democrats don’t touch it. The lie is about the S.A.L.T....

There both is less and more than meets the eye in last Tuesday's variously-styled primary “bombshell” “tornado” or “watershed moment.”  Then New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani came first in an eleven-person Democratic mayoral primary contest and almost assured he...

Serena Williams’ pronouncement the other day that “Women’s sports is having a moment” stimulated this review of the women’s and men’s Roland Garros finals, contested last weekend in Paris.  The first tennis commentary HL has made in a long time, due mostly to our...