1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (271+ words) Here we are at the end of a month-long celebration of the life and work of the poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-2026) and I haven't said a word about his sexual politics, which I described to a friend'who helped launch the Gay…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1195+ words) Ed Rampell was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow because of his TV exposes of Senator Joe Mc Carthy. Rampell majored in Cinema at Manhattan's Hunter College and is an L. A. -based film historian/critic who co-organized the 2017 70th anniversary Blacklist…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (519+ words) Here we go again. It's time for another performance of American politicians' favorite off-Broadway play, "Shutdown Panic." "Congress only has a few weeks to avoid a government shutdown," Mitchell Hill reports at WTOP, "but leaders of both parties are still…...