Friends, Last Wednesday, Fred Wertheimer received the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government for 2025. Ever since I met him in the 1970s, when he worked as legal counsel for Common Cause, the nonpartisan citizens’ lobby, Fred has been trying to make American democracy work better. Fred led ...
Friends, Some people would like to believe that Elon Musk is no longer a danger to democracy because his polls are in the basement and he’s apparently on his way out of Trump’s White House. They’re wrong. Musk still has Trump’s ear, and even after he leaves he’ll be back in the White House at least...
Friends, Today, the Federal Reserve decided to leave interest rates where they are, at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent. Although the Fed acknowledged that the labor market was still “solid,” it also noted that “risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen.” Recall that last November, th...
Friends, With Mother’s Day this Sunday, I wanted to raise a real problem — but one that’s being grotesquely distorted by Trump and his lackeys. Births in the United States increased by just 1 percent in 2024, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s nearl...
Friends, Several of you have asked me how I manage to produce this Substack every day, seven days a week (often two or three times a day). Is there just one of you? you ask. Do you get any sleep? Do you have a life? There’s just one of me (except on Saturdays, when Heather Lofthouse joins me for th...
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Unknown (American). , 1940s–50s. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015 (2015.330) Source: Vogue. At its best, art is subversive and loud, even when it is silent and mainly visual. Fashion, at its best, is art that’s like that. The M...
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Friends, Sorry to intrude on you again today but I need to add this week’s winner of the Neville Chamberlain Award, given to the most cowardly effort to appease a tyrant. (This week’s original winners were Shari Redstone and Paramount, for intruding on the editorial independence of “60 Minutes” in ...
