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A Dystopian Tale for Our Time
Tyranny and civil war come to a society very much like ours
Jan 30
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Larry Massaro
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February 2022
Saturday, February 26, 2022
The news from Ukraine these past few days has been truly depressing—the kind of depressing that, for me, turns a pint of ice cream and two shots of…
Feb 27, 2022
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
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Thursday, February 24, 2022
This is a continuation of the discussion I began on February 9 on our extreme polarization, shifting attention from Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized to…
Feb 24, 2022
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Thursday, February 24, 2022
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Friday, February 11, 2022
My friend Rita read my newsletter from Wednesday and sent me Thomas Edsal’s column on a similar theme that appeared in Wednesday’s New York Times…
Feb 11, 2022
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Larry Massaro
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022
When we were kids, and when politics came up in conversation, my mom would often repeat a saying she got from her father: “When Republicans are in…
Feb 9, 2022
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Larry Massaro
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022
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January 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
The U.S. Senate today is debating the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, a sweeping and, I believe, essential set of proposed changes to the nation’s…
Jan 20, 2022
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 By naming this newsletter “The Mess We've Made,” I run the risk of sounding like nothing more than a crabby old man, and thus…
Jan 5, 2022
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November 2021
About "The Mess We've Made"
The starting premise of this newsletter is something that we all know in our bones: that public life in the United States today is an absolute mess. And…
Nov 26, 2021
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