Cherie Zaslawsky column

Cherie Zaslawsky is a writer, editor, educator and English tutor who lives in California.

Cherie Zaslawsky

November 8, 2020

Many people apparently believe this election is like any other, when it is as unprecedented as the response to this year’s flu has been. Those who get all their . . .

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October 30, 2020

Many Americans believe that what we’re witnessing today is simply a more intense form of politics as usual: Democrats vs. Republicans. If only that were so.  . . .

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October 16, 2020

Curiouser and curiouser. Out of the blue, just weeks before the most consequential election in American history, our indefatigable President gets sick, and a . . .

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October 6, 2020

Much has been said about the first presidential debate—which was anything but presidential. Here’s my two cents. This was not the debate people were hoping . . .

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May 18, 2020

Shortly after World War II ended, Americans were in shock as the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. But they also took comfort from the fact that nothing . . .

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April 30, 2020

President Trump is right that we’re at war with an invisible enemy. But that enemy is most emphatically not a virus. He has been lured into fighting the wrong . . .

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April 22, 2020

On March 16th of this year, I went to bed in America as usual, but woke up in Venezuela. I didn’t know it over breakfast, however. It didn’t dawn on me . . .

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April 15, 2020

An unintended consequence of my years of reading Agatha Christie mysteries is that I learned how to separate the red herrings from the salient facts hiding . . .

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April 10, 2020

Thank goodness we have some medical giants in this country – I refer not to the limelight-loving Dr. Anthony Fauci – who have been working around . . .

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April 3, 2020

One of my favorite rituals takes place on Sunday mornings in my tranquil little suburb of Menlo Park here in California. We have a lovely once-a-week outdoor . . .

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March 29, 2020

It is a sad commentary on American journalism that virtually no one in the media is talking about the unconstitutional violations of our rights in states like . . .

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December 17, 2019

The Democrats' attempt to derail Donald Trump's candidacy, followed by their ongoing Herculean effort to oust him from the White House, has become a national . . .

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December 1, 2019

Lest we forget, a number of the 2016 candidates who ran for the presidency did not meet the requirement of natural born citizenship. The Founders created this . . .

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November 17, 2019

If I ask my students to write about aphorisms like "crime doesn't pay" or "cheaters never prosper," they find it difficult, since they know from their own . . .

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October 24, 2019

Listen to Fox News, and you'll hear phrases such as "Trump derangement syndrome" and "liberal heads are exploding" on a daily basis. Conservative newscasts . . .

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March 5, 2019

It's difficult to keep up with the Left's crusades against new, presumably intolerable "offenses," giving rise to the witch hunt du jour – but one of the . . .

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February 27, 2019

Kudos to the Chicago police force. Call it poetic justice, or karma, or old-fashioned honest-to-goodness justice – Jussie got it between the eyes.  . . .

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February 9, 2019

I'm almost sorry for the Democrats. I said "almost." President Trump delivered a such a powerful and inspirational State of the Union address that the . . .

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January 27, 2019

After watching as much as I could stomach of the CNN video of Pelosi and Schumer trying to convince the public that President Trump had delivered a terrible, . . .

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October 19, 2018

On Thursday, October 4th, Chuck Schumer repeated his claim that Christine Blasey Ford's uncorroborated testimony was credible, and added that she "came forward . . .

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November 26, 2017

It is perhaps no surprise that a coterie of NeverTrumpers has been quick to jump on the NeverMoore bandwagon. After all, Roy Moore shares the President's agenda . . .