Month: March 2016

Casual Observation

I don’t have a huge problem with Bernie Sanders complaining about the superdelegates, but I have to point out a few ironies. Just two weeks ago, I was explaining to angry Sanders’ supporters in the comments that it...

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There’s No Nixon to Save Us

Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin provides a broadly accurate history of the resurrection of Richard Nixon in the context of the populist uprising presented by then-Alabama Governor George Wallace. Much of this piece is contentious...

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What if we all committed to

beginning every conversation with: “were you aware that the global average temperature for [February 2016] was 2.18 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average[?] Could that maybe even begin to make the needed...

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