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The march of White Supremacy, from Oklahoma City to Christchurch
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City National Memorial consists of two stark structures connected by a reflecting pool, intended as monuments to the strength and resiliency of the city.
Getting real about rural America
Things clump together; the periphery cannot hold.
Who do Jared and Ivanka think they are?
Many high achievers, particularly women and people of color, suffer from impostor syndrome, the fear that they don’t belong in the rarefied realm to which they’ve ascended and that they will soon be found out.
Booker finds his moment
How do you answer hatred? How should you respond when your political opponents assault you with insult, stereotype and contempt? That’s the moral question we all have to answer during this election campaign.
China's brutal 'boarding schools'
The Trump administration may not be the most unimpeachable source when it comes to human rights, but the head of the State Department’s bureau for human rights, Michael Kozak, was dead on when he said China’s mass incarceration of Muslim minorities was “just remarkably awful."
It isn't complicated: Trump encourages violence
The president of the United States suggested last week that his political supporters might resort to violence if they didn’t get their way.
Elizabeth Warren actually wants to fix capitalism
Bill Clinton had a consequential presidency when it came to the economy. He brought down the Reagan-era deficits, helping spark the strongest economic boom in decades, and he made the tax code more progressive.
How to fight suicide
She expresses it by trying to help people prevent suicide and deal with the grief that comes in its wake.
The man who changed the constitution, twice
In American history, two people have that distinction.
The college bribery scandal and the uberization of graft
There has always been a separate college admissions system for the wealthy, just as there has always been a separate criminal justice system for them. (See: Manafort, Paul.)
Cheese! Beer! Democrats!
Wisconsin, of course, is the state Hillary Clinton took for granted/failed to visit/lost in 2016. This is definitely a makeup bid. While nobody believes, deep down, that people base their vote on convention location, it can’t hurt.
Two women, heroes for our age
They are women who bravely challenged misogyny and dictatorship, one in Iran, the other in Saudi Arabia.
Bernie Sanders, Socialism's Reagan?
The term that seems to fit them both is “disjunctive,” from the categorizations of Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek.
Who to elect for a foreign policy crisis at 3 A.M.?
Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t heard any of the Democrats running on the argument that he or she is the best person to answer the White House crisis line at 3 in the morning.
Bribes to get into Yale and Stanford? What else is new?
He recounted the involvement of one father and mother in their son’s personal (hah!) essay, which they didn’t trust him to ace himself. They drafted it, focusing of course on the hardship that he had overcome.
The trouble with Biden
The possibility of defeating Trump without defeating Trumpism looms over Joe Biden’s possible run for the 2020 Democratic nomination.
The power of petty personal rage
My starting point is a weekend tweet from Rep. Devin Nunes of California, who headed the House Intelligence Committee until the House changed hands after the midterms.
The massage parlor owner and Mar-a-Lago
Still, it’s worth trying to summon whatever is left of our pre-Trump sensibilities and pause to consider the epic sleaze of the unfolding story of Li Yang, also known as Cindy Yang.![The massage parlor owner and Mar-a-Lago [newsstandhub]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.api.sportal365.com%2Fprocess%2Fsmp-images-production%2Fpulse.ug%2F23082024%2F300b0f67-5846-495b-a516-cf8562dcafbb&w=3840&q=75)
If Stalin had a smartphone
In the first place, he’d have much better surveillance equipment.
America's most profitable export: Money
Last year, the United States exported $65.3 billion of its currency — mostly $100 bills.
