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Guest AuthorOctober 30, 2013

Florida’s enthusiasm for disenfranchising voters is an authoritarian’s theme park. The state is dallying in an on-again-off-again hate affair with early voting. It regularly conjures up fantastic tales of voter fraud that never happened. It treats ex-felons like ex-citizens forever robbed of their voting rights. And outdoing even bogus democracies like Iraq, it treats voter […]

Guest AuthorOctober 23, 2013

“The absence of articulate political leadership in the country makes us feel that we are floundering,” the great Saul Bellow wrote in a piece for Forbes — in 1972. Richard Nixon was president, a reminder that even in the worst of times, if the nation could survive that knave, it’s not about to be sunk […]

Guest AuthorOctober 15, 2013

For the Nobel Peace Prize this year, I was rooting for Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who a year ago was shot in the head by a shaking, demented terrorist whose allegiance to the Taliban tells us all we need to know about the lethality of religious fundamentalism. Any kind of fundamentalism, really. It […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2013

The central tenet of the Affordable Care Act — health insurance for almost all — kicked in at the same instant that the government shutdown began last week. It was one of those conjunctions of American history that bleed with irony, like the waning days of the Civil War when Jefferson Davis drafted slaves to […]

Tag: Pierre Tristam

Pierre Tristam: A county’s economic development affront to voters: drop dead

Pierre Tristam: It’s time to get rid of Florida’s suicide Republicans

Pierre Tristam: Why Malala Yousafzai should have won the Nobel Peace Prize

Pierre Tristam: The Medicare generation’s immoral war on Obamacare