Thursday, June 12, 2025

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Michael Saltz

Michael Saltz was a multi-award winning Senior Producer for the PBS NewsHour for most of his career. Now retired, he publishes an occasional column through his Substack platform at https://michaelsaltz.substack.com. Subscriptions are free. He's also on the board of directors of the Art School of Columbia County and is a resident of the county along with his wife and Max, his constant bullmastiff companion.

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MICHAEL SALTZ: I believe

Most of the GOP has gone from loathing Donald Trump to adoring him, or at least pretending to. As for Taylor Swift, they have gone from wishfully thinking of her as the ultimate white conservative music star to understanding that she is anything but that.

MICHAEL SALTZ: ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ (Part Three)

In the relations between men and women, men are clearly seen as the victims. It is all such nonsense. Think of it, perhaps, as another gift of religion—not.

MICHAEL SALTZ: ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ (Part Two)

Despite all the talk about respecting precedent (and every person nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice is asked about it), the current majority has emphatically made known that now that they are on the Court, they have no problem overturning long-standing precedents.

MICHAEL SALTZ: ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ (Part One)

Abortion in the 1950s was, of course, illegal. But it was hardly unknown, any more than it has ever been unknown. As long as women have been having babies, there have been abortions.

MICHAEL SALTZ: To be or not to be

That question, “Shall Israel exist?” as an independent Jewish nation-state, is the only question on the table, as it has been since 1948. “To be or not to be.”
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