- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
- American Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.
- Income
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you've dressed an African.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020