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By CARL DOERNER

 Here we are, watching the snow pile up, while millionaires and billionaires who have always determined the fate of our country and the sum of their wealth dine with that convicted criminal who managed to fool enough people to obtain more winters...

By CARL DOERNER

 The gatherers of facts have it that our least educated citizens were those most likely to vote for Trump. As a career teacher and school administrator, I take keen interest in that analysis.Privatization of schooling in New Orleans was the...

By CARL DOERNER

 The circumstances surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, are not without precedent. That you haven’t heard of an earlier attempt than Donald Trump’s to establish authoritarian rule in the U.S. is due not to the fact it failed, but because corporations that create...

By CARL DOERNER

 The German-American philosopher-historian Hannah Arendt was one of the 20th century’s wisest and respected interpreters. In her famous book, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” (1968), she wrote:“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses...

By CARL DOERNER

 Despising one-man rule, nearly all of them slave owners, men of wealth and property gathered to create the U.S. They looked to ancient Greece, and to an Indian Confederation for models and designed a government in which “some” men ruled.Selecting a...

By CARL DOERNER

 Back in May, NPR’s “All Things Considered” broadcast an accounting of the impact of COVID on New York’s theater industry. The latter term applies. Preparing a drama for the stage on Broadway is little different than other capital ventures. It...

By CARL DOERNER

On April 11, Donald Trump met with oil, gas, and other industry guests he had invited to his Mar-a-Lago estate. He asked for their support in the coming presidential election with donation of $1 billion. Yes, a billion dollars.And yes, he can do this...

By CARL DOERNER

November is the month for elections, and Nov. 5 promises to be a dramatic day — but March is the month of cinema and contention over who has produced the best work the public will come sit for hours in the dark to see. The Academy Awards ceremony...

By CARL DOERNER

 No one has explained why young GIs were sleeping in a Jordan desert when harm came to them. Those generals who appear on TV are only up to speed about attacks, counterattacks, counter-counterattacks and so on. The military has to justify its...

By CARL DOERNER

The Sept 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center echoed a devastating coup on Sept. 11, 1973 supported by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, by General Augusto Pinochet against the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. In retaliations,...