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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...