HeyJaredJames D. Zirin
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Good-Bye, Dolly: Farewell to an American Icon (opens the original)
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I was most fortunate to meet Dolly Parton in Nashville last summer. With apologies to Shakespeare, “death shall not brag she wandered in his shade.” Her uniquely American story will live on. I attended the workshop for a new musical she had written about her life, and she was there as in her song “Jolene,” with a “smile like a breath of spring” and a “voice soft like summer rain.” That night she was triumphant, magnetic, full of joy, a half-filled Champagne glass in hand (I learned later she did
The Roberts Court: Poised to Bless the Trump Ballroom (opens the original)
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to continue construction of a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom to replace the East Wing he demolished last fall. The order has no expiration date, but it will expire after the full court reconvenes in the fall. Administrative orders are usually intended to freeze the status quo pending hearing and decision. But this order reshapes the status quo, since construction of the ballroom will continue while t
Fauci Agonistes: It’s Time to End the Republican Witch Hunt (opens the original)
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The right danced a jig of joy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoking the Fifth Amendment before Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. The Kentucky Republican knew in advance that Fauci would give no substantive testimony. Yet he paraded the 85-year-old doctor before the cameras to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights over a hundred times, then warned him of “repercussions” for refusing to answer. Judges often instruct juries that they may draw no adverse inference from a witness’s invocation o
Trump’s Anger Management Problem (opens the original)
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Donald Trump is an inveterate hater. He hates everyone and everything unless they fit neatly into his version of reality. He is the most vindictive and vicious president in American history. As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, he has prosecuted his political enemies for crimes as dubious as taking a picture of seashells on the beach. He rewards his political friends with pardons, abusing his power to exonerate January 6 criminals and other malefactors of great wealth. He served subpoe
Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Was Even Worse Than You Thought (opens the original)
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When President Donald Trump addressed the nation regarding alleged vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system, he proclaimed that “no country can be great without fair and honest elections.” No argument there. What he said, however, was mostly not new, and what was new was riddled with overstatement and exaggeration. While he promised the truth lay in a document dump to be posted online, the papers, upon examination, do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election s
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