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Medical Emergency- America’s Health Care
Critical Care As the halls of Congress morph into a Critical Care Unit, the GOP’s prescription “to preserve our freedom” appears to be to pull the plug on Obamacare- STAT! Although some Republicans...
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Color Me Hopeful- Remembering the Kennedy Inauguration
#TurnHimOff Ratings are what Donald Trump understands. Protest in your own home on inauguration day. Turn off your TV Tomorrow is a day of no TV for me. Inauguration day, 2017 my TV goes dark. For over...
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Women March On Washington
Women’s March on Washington Graphics by Sally Edelstein and Karen Gutfreund Americans and citizens around the world are marching tomorrow to challenge Trump’s administration. We are here and we are...
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So Long Mary Tyler Moore
As a 30 year old single working woman, Mary Richards acted as a kind of stand in for a new American female for a generation of women. TV Guide May 1977 With the turn of a TV dial, Mary turned the...
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A Tale of Two Cities- Washington DC Inauguration Weekend
The tale of two cities was the tale of two hats It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. It was two days in January where two...
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I Married a Refugee
Steeped in fear, Trump has cast an entire people as pre-disposed to disloyalty. Was this little refugee boy on the left any more of a threat to cold war America than the Syrian child on the right is...
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Closed Borders or Open Hearts
Trump has essentially pulled up the welcome mat to tens of thousands of people seeking asylum, based solely on their religion. Clearly Trump just doesn’t like the tired, the poor, and the huddled...
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Heavens to Betsy, Our Schools Go to Hell
Heavens to Betsy, there should be no surprise about DeVos’s confirmation. Donald Trump did say: “I Love the poorly educated.” Trump won bigly with the uneducated voters so perhaps this is just part of...
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She Persisted
“They can shit me up, but they can’t change the truth” – Elizabeth Warren. Vintage Suffragette postcard She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, She persisted. Silencing...
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Hooking Up Advice- A Vintage Valentine’s Day Dilemma
To Canoodle or Not to Canoodle In Post-War America, love was in the air. Along with Valentines Day’s hearts and flowers, came big dates, big dances, and king sized expectations in high schools and...
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Art Show-“Embedded Messages, Debating the Dream: Truth, Justice and the...
“There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute” collage of appropriated vintage images (detail) Sally Edelstein. Showing at the Art Center Highland Park, Illinois. Opening March 3, 2017 Has the American Dream...
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Nuclear Ambitions
Off to the Arms races! Supersizing the Superpower collage of appropriated images by Sally Edelstein Well, we’re off to the arms races again as the supersizing of the superpowers begins anew. Donald...
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Slaves Were Happy Immigrants
The Tortured Truth about Slavery. As much as we whitewashed over the brutality of slavery as evidenced by this (L) happy “immigrant” slave as portrayed in a 1950s children’s coloring book, slaves were...
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Women Are Called to Action
Collage Detail from Womens Lib- A Storms Approachin’ collage by Sally Edelstein Today on International Women’s Day 2017, nearly 45 years after the women’s liberation movement stormed onto the scene...
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Is Donald Trump Today’s Richard Nixon?
Talk about ripped from the headlines – that is if the headlines are 46 years old. MAD Magazine cover April 1971 Lies and Deceit -A Country Out of Order Has it begun to feel the country has gone...
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Kellyanne Conway’s Cold War Collection of Kitchen Spyware
In Kellyanne Conway’s alternative universe cold war housewives benefited from a whole range of home spy surveillance equipment like blenders, mixers, percolators and dishwashers all at her...
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Women Take a Back Seat Again
It’s a retro ride with the Republicans driving the fate of maternity coverage in health care plans for millions of women. (L) Vintage 1934 Chevrolet ad (R) Whats wrong with this picture? A dozen white...
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Maternity in the Age of Mad Men
Who’s Afraid of the Stork? asks this 1951 vintage ad for Lederle a Division of American Cyanamid Company. “The stork is now as tame as a household pet,” it boasts, explaining how safe childbirth has...
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Make Coal Great Again
How do we make America great again? Burn, baby, burn! Yes, it’s time to make coal great again! Wave a white flag; we are ending the long war on coal. Though of course the next time we wave a flag in...
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How To Pick Up Girls- The Old Boys Club Way
Just in time for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, our Predator in Chief supports another sexual predator Bill O’ Reilly. Clearly Donald Trump has not evolved from the 1970’s misogynist make out artist...
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