Claire Conger

We The People had better shape up. That’s the warning from Anonymous in his or her book A Warning. He/she writes that we choose a president that reflects ourselves, in this case narcissistic and petty and vengeful.  Read more... (87 words, 2 images, estimated 21 secs reading time)

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Free trade can be dangerous: It relies on maintaining the status quo.

Suppose you’re growing all the soybeans and the other country is making all the medical equipment, but then suddenly there’s a pandemic and that other country doesn’t want to trade away the medical equipment. You’re going to be stuck with ill-equipped health care providers and a lot of beans.  Read more... (365 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

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Omarosa’s Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House is pretty much what I expected, an accounting of her time in the White House saying, in effect, “I did everything right, but I was treated unfairly.” Her account of Trumpworld is much the same as that in Fire and Fury or Fear, just different details and a more intimate point of view.  Read more... (261 words, 4 images, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)

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At first I didn’t want to read Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House. Fear is told in such an “I was there” voice, I wondered how much was fiction. Not much, I concluded. Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House says pretty much the same things.  Read more... (344 words, 2 images, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

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Remember Steve Bannon? He was advisor to our boy Trump until Bannon upstaged Trump and landed on the cover of Time Magazine as “The Great Manipulator” (February 2017).  Read more... (274 words, 1 image, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

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