Froma Harrop
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Froma Harrop: Ah, Nikki Haley. Change your shoes
From the commentary: Nikki Haley is clearly a long shot, but ditching pointy toes for sharper counterattacks would be the way to go. → Read More
Froma Harrop: What warming might do to New England
From the commentary: But as the climate changes, so have the fortunes and profile of Maine's potato culture. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Politics and the Michigan mass shooting
From the commentary: We've been here before: shocked calls for an even modest tightening of gun laws and Republicans killing almost all efforts to do so. → Read More
Froma Harrop: America is going green big time. Are we mean?
From the commentary: ... The biggest prize here may be more cosmic — a huge reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Democrats should not have wanted Ilhan Omar on that committee
From the commentary: Those who feel as (Rep. Jim) Clyburn does should not want (Rep. Ilhan) Omar as the face of their party. Republicans have done Democrats a favor, and, one suspects, many Democrats know that → Read More
Froma Harrop: Are Democrats worried about Kamala Harris?
From the commentary: (Kamala Harris) has the brains and the chops to be a real asset to the ticket and the party. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Social Security on the cutting block?
From the commentary: Americans have so far resisted getting cheated out of the benefits they and their employers have paid for with real money. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Why not Pete Buttigieg?
From the commentary: (Pete) Buttigieg connects with voters. He could be the Democrats' presidential candidate. Or, as a replacement for not-much-loved Vice President Kamala Harris → Read More
Froma Harrop: We can now call economic terrorists 'economic terrorists'
From the commentary: People who threaten to blow up an airplane if their political demands aren't met are political terrorists. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Egg prices are already cracking
From the commentary: Bear in mind that cost pressures on eggs include Russia's war on Ukraine and the drought across much of the U.S. They and the avian flu all continue but the price for eggs has nonetheless started coming down. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Population shouldn't be a ponzi scheme
From the commentary: There are ways to provide for the unique challenges facing every generation. That should be true here, as well as in China. → Read More
Froma Harrop: The Bros are sorry, so they say
From the commentary: As they say, bros will be bros. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Biden's border policies: Better but not good enough
From the commentary: Biden has gotten tougher. He has added 300 new Border Patrol officers and just made it easier to turn back unauthorized migrants who just show up at the border. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Did Joe Biden 'shut down' American energy? Hardly
From the commentary: And there is zero evidence of (Joe Biden) "shutting down" American energy, at least for those of us stuck in the world of reality. → Read More
Froma Harrop: TikTok needs to leave these shores
From the commentary: The videos — silly or educational — can keep rolling without threatening national security. TikTok must go. → Read More
Froma Harrop: People shouldn't live on the streets. Period.
From the commentary: The criteria for hospitalizing someone without consent are whether there is serious risk of self-harm or harm to others. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Democrats are learning how to win
From the commentary: In changing their presidential nominating process, Democrats are becoming more democratic. They are also growing smarter. ... Democrats are learning how to win. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Apple Is real. Twitter, not really
From the commentary: Let's accept everyone's arguments at face value. In the name of free speech, Musk is opening Twitter to unmoderated bigots, vaccine deniers and other assorted creeps. That's his right. Twitter is his toy to play with or break. ... Apple, on the other hand, wants to keep the… → Read More
Froma Harrop: Fauci proved no good deed goes unpunished
From the commentary: Your harshest critics clearly didn't share the value Dr. Fauci places on life. You said your saddest period was back in the '80s when you were treating people with HIV/AIDS and there was no effective therapy. → Read More
Froma Harrop: Time for Democrats to primary AOC
From the commentary: Ocasio-Cortez has a long record of pushing primary challenges to Democrats deemed insufficiently radical. These attempts are almost always unsuccessful though draining to the incumbent. → Read More