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  • Bonfires of Bigotry: The Sources of Our Present Anger

    Bonfires of Bigotry: The Sources of Our Present Anger0

    A few questions for my readers: When you are shopping at WalMart or your local mall, do you constantly assess people by the color of their skin? When the pigmentation of the clerk behind the register at the grocery store differs from your own, does bile rise in your throat? When you meet someone wearing

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  • Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise

    Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise0

    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.”            Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory

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  • Blundering Billionaire More Right Than Wrong

    Blundering Billionaire More Right Than Wrong0

    I’m not mad that some venture capital mogul (whom I’d never heard of before) said this week on a podcast (which I’d also never heard of before) that “nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.” I am, however, mildly (but not surprisingly) annoyed that this blundering billionaire backed down so quickly in the face

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  • Blue States Have Been Hit Much Harder by COVID-19

    Blue States Have Been Hit Much Harder by COVID-190

    In March, data guru Nate Silver wrote about the different ways blue states and red states were experiencing the COVID-19 epidemic, noting that “states Clinton won do have considerably more total reported cases.” COVID-19 was not just a blue state problem though. Silver pointed out that cases in red states were increasing far more rapidly.

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  • Bloomberg’s Money Couldn’t Buy Him the Nomination

    Bloomberg’s Money Couldn’t Buy Him the Nomination0

    Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for president has come to a crashing halt in the wake of the Super Tuesday results, per the campaign’s official statement: Three months ago, I entered the race for President to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I am leaving the race for the same reason: to defeat Donald Trump

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  • Bloomberg News Buried Stories Critical of China

    Bloomberg News Buried Stories Critical of China0

    Bloomberg News silenced reporters and killed an investigation six years ago into the wealth of Communist Party elites in China because they were afraid of the Chinese government. In their quest to appease Chinese party officials, Bloomberg forced reporters to sign non-disclosure agreements or face financial devastation – and even bullied and attempted to muzzle

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