Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

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Left-handed lefty, anti-MAGA, writer/reader/realtor, LGBTQIA ally, Type 1 diabetic since 1974, mom, dog-lover, living in a safe state (so far). Fluent in profanity as needed.

Chief economist of Koppa LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab; recovering academic and professor emeritx at UMass Amherst.

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