The American Crisis

In the mid-1980s, the Soviets focused on one particular sore spot: the American crisis of homelessness.

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland was wrapping up the Democrats’ case against former President Donald Trump when he cited Paine’s classic phrasing from a pamphlet called “The American Crisis.”

They explained that a police officer in Kenosha, Wis., shooting Jacob Blake in the back seven times, and a teenager fatally shooting two protesters, had escalated the American crisis to a point where they had to stop.

While aggressively confronting the American crisis, he or she might create a global, emergency health financing mechanism to help developing countries meet their most urgent needs.

And he’s central to the history of this little bar, which takes its name from his “The American Crisis” — and either the early 20th-century neighborhood restaurateur Romany Marie or Marie Dumont, the chanteuse who is said to have christened it.