Forget about Trump's myriad of legal problems for a moment. Right now Trump is a man beset by a plague of gnats. The problem is they're all GOP gnats. And it's not going to get any better any time...
This appears to be a matter of tit for tat. Robert E. Lee's statue was taken down, now George Floyd's is vandalized, within 48 hours of its unveiling in Union Square. Just a few days ago I screened Spike Lee's...
The sentencing hearing for Derek Chauvin went about as I expected today, in fact a little better than I had feared. Like most Americans who are not lawyers, I had never seen a full sentencing hearing before, and it...
It's a shame that this is happening, because it only keeps all the tensions ginned up. Passions that we thought were going to cool are now being elevated. My kneejerk reaction is that Chauvin's attorney did this because it's...

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