Monday, September 14, 2026

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

Mickey Friedman

A founding member of redcrownews.com, and former filmmaker, Mickey Friedman is the author of “A Red Family,” published by the University of Illinois Press. He is almost finished with a novel, “Danger Times Two.” Addicted to iced lattes, he can often be found pretending to write at Fuel GB. And while under the influence of caffeine, he has been known to travel as far as Price Chopper to the north and Big Y to the south.

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THE OTHER SIDE: Power and plunder. Greed and gall.

Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and hardcore MAGA have decided to mount an unrelenting, over-the-top campaign to distract as many voters as possible from the growing outrage over the Trump family’s colossally successful greed.

THE OTHER SIDE: Mr. President, green is not blue

Clearly, what we are witnessing are the devastating results of dreadful taste combined with an inability to contain arrogance.

THE OTHER SIDE: The good, the bad, and the New York Knicks

As thirsty as we were, year after year, I and other fans remained hopelessly faithful to our Knicks, working hard to distinguish between those who actually played basketball from the boss who controlled them.

THE OTHER SIDE: The Department of Justice’s Broadview debacle

As with Venezuela and Iran, Donald Trump exercised his imaginary executive powers by bypassing Congress and declaring war here at home.

THE OTHER SIDE: The World Cup

At the very time that we should be extending a heartfelt greeting to those folks from foreign lands who have come here, at extraordinary expense, to partake in the beautiful game, Donald Trump can’t help but enforce his hateful agenda. Again, his political rage overwhelms basic dignity.

THE OTHER SIDE: Our tasteless king from queens

As time is running out on his rule, Ozymandias-like, he rushes to erect monuments to his transitory and pathetic rule.

THE OTHER SIDE: Kilmar Abrego Garcia and prosecutorial abuse

n the midst of this madness, I am happy to share a story of vindication, the story of a very courageous judge and an overdue acknowledgment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s perseverance and courage in the face of the enormous misapplication of state power.

THE OTHER SIDE: Jim Crow goes to war

Segregation demanded “the separate,” but it was never, ever equal—not in peace, not in war.

THE OTHER SIDE: Jim Crow

After all these years, all that blood spilled, all that extraordinary courage mustered, we in America are back to racism resurrected.

THE OTHER SIDE: The war we don’t see

The story we are being told about Iran reminds me of the story we were told about Vietnam. The story we were told about Afghanistan. The story we were told about Iraq. The story Donald Trump is still telling about Venezuela.

THE OTHER SIDE: RFK Jr. is not OK

There is a yawning gap between how Robert F. Kennedy speaks about influenza and the flu vaccine and the very real experience of ordinary Americans.

THE OTHER SIDE: Peace Later

I know I am not the only American completely confused by Donald Trump’s contradictory Iran rhetoric and vacillating strategy. One moment he is saying peace is almost at hand, the next he is waging war.

THE OTHER SIDE: Dragging Jesus off to war

With very good reasons, shaped by a profound understanding of the ways of the world, He has opted for conscientious objection.

THE OTHER SIDE: Donald Trump’s Cease(d) Fire

We are all in danger of losing the little that is left of our souls.

THEE OTHER SIDE: The Constitution (Part One)

As the threats to democracy escalate, I find myself wondering about those who were central to the endeavor of creating a new nation, a nation more free and nurturing of independence than the British kingdom they had worked so hard to defeat.

THE OTHER SIDE: Howl 2.0

Because Congress was not told or involved, because our allies were not involved or even informed, and because the American people were surprised, the administration has stumbled to justify going to war to crush the current Iranian regime while destroying a nuclear threat they had just bragged they had obliterated.
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