SHE EMERGED ON Monday as the leading voice of “the Squad,” not because hers is the loudest but because, in fact, it seems the most measured. Ayanna Pressley, diplomat of the bomb-throwers, seems like something of a contradiction in terms. But that’s how Boston’s freshman US representative is being pegged in the wake of the […]
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
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Ayanna Pressley, measured bomb-thrower
She emerged on Monday as the leading voice of “the Squad,” not because hers is the loudest but because, in fact, it seems the most measured. Ayanna Pressley, diplomat of the bomb-throwers, seems like something of a contradiction in terms. But that’s how Boston’s freshman US representative is being pegged in the wake of the […]
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Michael Cohen in the spotlight
ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC episodes in the entire saga of criminality surrounding President Donald Trump played out before a rapt audience on Wednesday as Michael Cohen described his former boss as a racist, cheat, and conman. Cohen didn’t provide much in the way of revelations, but as a one-time confidant of Trump he did […]