Can We Get Hollywood, Educators & Politicians to Watch More Danish TV?

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   Being home for a short spell, as a treat we’ve been watching some television before the lights go off.  Recently, we’ve been catching an episode on an almost nightly basis of “Rita,” a series on Danish television about an anti-authoritarian, but deeply committed and wildly popular school teacher.   Last year, I watched several …

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To Host a Bigger Crowd of Our People, We May Need a Better Party

DC Politics National Politics

New Orleans   There were moments in the 2016 presidential race when observers thought that the candidates for President from the Libertarian and Green Parties could experience significant gains, perhaps even be spoilers. As both major parties presented candidates disappointing to many voters and when Bernie Sanders, a Democrat-Socialist, had inspired such fervor, many felt, there …

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