The Alarm Clock Ad December 27, 2023 Sixty seconds. All it takes to save democracy — to answer that alarm — is courage. Yet that’s easier said than done. How many have had the courage to defy Putin? Or Kim Jong Un? Or any of the other dictators with whom Trump feels special kinship? Thom Hartmann reports on how death threats keep Trump powerful. Thanks for any help you may be able to pitch in. SEPARATELY, AND VERY SAD TO SAY . . . It’s time to “rusticate” Harvard’s president — as argued here in the Atlantic.