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I WITNESS: Leadership

Good leaders lead by example. Bad leaders lead by example, too.

Alan Chartock: School of scoundrels

Jared Kushner: Continuing the theme of familial conflict of interest, here is the spawn of a convicted criminal who is married to the daughter of the president of the United States.

Alan Chartock: The doctor is in

Just because you’d like it doesn’t mean it will happen. It will not. If it did, you would have to figure out how to placate those little states that make out like bandits because of the Electoral College and the undue influence that it gives to them.

Warren is most capable presidential candidate

In a letter to the editor, Michael Wise writes: "Warren will not only unify the Democrats, but she will also appeal to independents and good-government traditional Republicans."

AMPLIFICATIONS: Looking through the lens of time

I am worried about what appears to be heading our way, because what is going to happen to those who speak out against Trump’s totalitarian policies?

POEM: Of Toads & Men

“How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

No-trial impeachment ‘trial’

In his letter Stewart Edelstein of Stockbridge writes: "We, the people, demand a fair trial, not a show trial with a preordained result."

Alan Chartock: I Publius

On New Year’s Day, I predicted that Joe Kennedy would win. Frankly, I don’t see how he can’t.

Alan Chartock: Predictions for 2020

Every year it is my solemn duty to share my predictions for the coming year.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Did it even happen?

Maybe an average-ish return, to you, is like getting gym socks in your stocking. But it’s better than losing your shirt.

Alan Chartock: New York powerbrokers

It’s really amazing how blue-state New York has so many players, both reds and blues, in the political wars.

Alan Chartock: Onward with impeachment

Trump has basically argued that he is above the law. His attorney general supports that view. That’s the way dictatorships begin.

News Brief: Impeachment rally Tuesday at Park Square

Protestors will demand that the House of Representatives fulfill its constitutional duty by impeaching Donald Trump and that the Senate remove him from office for attempting to rig the 2020 elections.

LEONARD QUART: Musings redux

As always, I muse about the city, which, these days, I explore less extensively.

Alan Chartock: Advice to the governor

Cuomo, people suspect, is still angry with the Working Families Party for endorsing a progressive primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, in the past Democratic gubernatorial primary — just another example of his living up to the nickname I have attached to him: “Tough Guy Andrew.”

CONNECTIONS: Unpopular presidents

All five received mixed reviews, but possibly all presidents do. What they accomplished and how their terms were characterized varied.

CONNECTIONS: Polarizer in chief

If everything is reduced to for and against, then it is reduced to choosing sides. And if that is how “news” is presented, why are we surprised that the country is “polarized”?
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