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Carolyn Konheim, Foe of All That Befouled a City, Dies at 81

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Carolyn Konheim, whose sons’ soot-specked white snow suits transformed her from a high school history teacher into a crusading New York environmentalist who targeted water and air pollutants, congested streets and other scourges of modern urban life, died on Nov. 25 at her home in Brooklyn. She was 81.

The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease and dementia, her husband, Brian…

The Hijacked American Presidency

❝ Every now and then we are going to have to do this: Step back from the daily onslaughts of insanity emanating from Donald Trump’s parasitic presidency and remind ourselves of the obscenity of it all, registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth. ❝ There is something insidious and corrosive about trying to evaluate the severity of every offense, trying to give each an individual…