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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Charlie Hebdo' had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too - but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap that can be turned on and off at their whim.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
- Bona
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain murderous ideas are in the air worldwide, and they are finding individuals in scattered places in different ways, and every attack spreads them further, plants an idea in a new head.
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- Nov 07, 2020