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MY FIRST CAUCUS (AND LAST?)
“It’s 7 p.m, and the Democratic caucus is in session!” the leader cried over a bullhorn. Pandemonium erupted – cheers and war whoops – in the overcrowded school where I was attending my first caucus....
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SHADES OF ’68
I knew Obama was in trouble the weekend before the Ohio-Texas votes. I was at a calling party organized by MoveOn.org. About fifty of us had spread out through a friend’s home in Colorado and were...
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UNCLE BARACK
Published June 13, 2008 by Sara Davidson The day after Obama claimed the nomination, a German newspaper ran a picture of the White House on its front page with the headline, “Uncle Barack’s Cabin.” The...
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ESTROGEN FOR OBAMA
The question was put to Obama’s brain trust in Chicago: “When JFK took office in 1960, he said we would put a man on the moon in ten years, and we did. What should a President Obama have as his moon...
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Ari Shavit Proposes 3rd Way for Israel/Palestine peace
One day after the Jerusalem synagogue attack last week, Ari Shavit, author of My Promised Land, proposed a Plan B—an alternative peace process that is gradual and informal, and offers a “horizon of...
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Colorado — Medicare for All?
A revolution is sprouting in Colorado that could make it the first state to create a single-payer health care system that covers every resident. They’re calling it “Medicare for All.” ColoradoCareYes,...
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Slouching Toward the Caucus in Hawaii
It’s hard to tell in Honolulu that a Presidential election is happening. The only evidence of the upcoming Democratic caucuses, on March 26th, is near the University of Hawaii and other spots, where,...
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Reading Bobby, Arlene, and Jane
I found the video on YouTube: Bobby Kennedy speaking to a rally of black people in Indianapolis in 1968, on the night Martin Luther King was shot. Bobby had been informed about King’s death by the...
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High Noon – Antidote for Trump Malaise
When in despair with the fortune of our country, I began reading High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel. His thesis is that Carl Foreman, the...
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