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By JOE GANNON

While the shock wears off, again, from our presidential election, it is a suitable time to just take a breath before we decide — that is, lock down — our reaction.And we do decide our reaction. We will throw up our hands, rip out our hair, or just...

By JOE GANNON

 What did we learn from the presidential debate we did not know beforehand? Nothing. What has the debate changed? Nothing, other than the sound of Democratic knickers twisting in agony across the nation.President Joe Biden, it turns out, is an elderly...

By JOE GANNON

 There are not many columns I have read in the Gazette that were as poetic as Jena Schwartz’s,“Things I have not said” [Gazette, April 24]. It is a time when much is being left unsaid, and as she points out, a time when many want much left...

By JOE GANNON

 In the 1970s, when much of the world was singing the John Lennon chant “all we are saying, is give peace a chance,” the reggae star Peter Tosh produced a song in response, with the refrain, “I don’t want no peace. I, man, need equal right and...

By JOE GANNON

One reason I love reading the Gazette is that its news and opinion pages often tell deep stories, even if they don’t always connect the dots.The Rev. Andrea Ayvazian’s July 15 column on the abolition of poverty [“‘Poverty abolitionist focuses the...

By JOE GANNON

And now we begin to see the true cost of Trumpism, and the lingering cancer it will bequeath our body politic long after the man is gone.In fact, the quicker Trump departs — through self-implosion or impeachment — the faster the GOP will be able to...

By JOE GANNON

Where does hope come from at this time when the world is lurching ever rightward? What can unite us enough to pull in the opposite direction when the old ideologies are gone?The French may have slowed that lurch toward right-wing populism in last...

By JOE GANNON

Captain Chaos and Bomb Chucker Bannon continue to offer such a dizzyingly daily cornucopia of new outrages and foot-in-mouth gaffes that you could be forgiven for not being able to look away from your screen.But I found myself recently trying to look...