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Equality in Marriages Grows, and So Does Class Divide - Note for a lecture,...
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and QUOCTRUNG BUI FEB. 27, 2016, New York Times [Original article contains links and charts.]Image from article: from text "Alena Taylor, 28, a management consultant, earns 40...
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A new theory of economic inequality - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
washingtonpost.comBy Robert J. Samuelson February 28 at 7:55 PMThumbing through the annual report of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is always an education. This year’s 430-page...
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The U.S. and ideas -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
image (not from the cited article and not meant to disparage the below quotation) from"The United States has always been governed by the authority of ideas, rather than the idea of authority."--Harvard...
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A President Trump would weaken the United States abroad
Editorial, Washington PostDonald Trump in Fort Worth on Friday. (Mike Stone/Reuters)By Editorial Board March 1 at 6:40 PM AFTER SUPER Tuesday, Donald Trump could well be on the ballot come November —...
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On Super Tuesday, Trump’s fate rests with ghost delegates
Elaine Kamarck, brookings.eduOn Super Tuesday, candidates were declared winners or losers according to the delegate count. Both Clinton and Trump have won a lion's share of the states, and are poised...
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Российско-американские сюжеты - [Cossacks in USA/Hollywood]
from; via noted historian of Russian-U.S. relations Ivan Kurilla on Facebook. See Translation.image from entryВ начале марта 1926 года я получил письмо из Парижа от князя Apчила Андронникова. Он...
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George Orwell’s master – and spymaster?
JOHN SUTHERLAND, The Times Literary SupplementOld school ties, Cambridge Apostles and the man who taught the young Eric Blair at EtonPublished: 24 February 2016Andrew Gow by Walter Stoneman, 1945...
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[Another View on Trump]: Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right
Tucker Carlson, Politico (Jan 28, 2016)image fromAnd, my dear fellow Republicans, he's all your fault.About 15 years ago, I said something nasty on CNN about Donald Trump’s hair. I can’t now remember...
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Общие ценности [return of Russian archival materials in the US to Russia]
kommersant.ruimage fromСША вернут России похищенные исторические документыКак стало известно "Ъ", 3 марта в резиденции посла США в Москве пройдет торжественная церемония, в ходе которой российским...
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Donald Drumpf: A Funny Label, but Is It Fair? - Note for a lecture,...
By DANIEL VICTOR MARCH 2, 2016, New York Times [original article contains link.]Trump image from articleWould Donald Drumpf poll as well?After a 22-minute segment Sunday on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight...
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Wilson Center: Summer 2016 Internships
via LJB by email Call for Applications: Summer 2016 InternshipsDeadline to apply: Tuesday, March 15, 2016The History and Public Policy Program seeks summer interns for the Cold War International...
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Surreal Photos Of Russia That Look Like A Strange Fairytale
designyoutrust.comFrank Herfort captures surreal moments in Russia. His series “Time In Between – Fairy Tale Of Russia” document the bizarre and beautiful contradictions of daily life in Moscow, St....
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Ancestry of Donald Trump
Kimberly Powell, Genealogy Expert, genealogy.about.comGetty ImagesUpdated March 02, 2016.With German ancestry from his father and Scottish ancestry from his mother, millionaire real estate developer...
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‘You Could Look It Up’ by Jack Lynch (book review)
By ALBERTO MANGUEL MARCH 3, 2016, New York Timesimage fromFrom the days of Copernicus to our own time, scientists have tried to teach ushumility: that our minuscule species is only a speck on a tiny...
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What is your opinion ...
via FacebookMohammed Matter with Martha Mckya and مارثا ماكايا.March 3 at 5:20am ·
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‘All the Single Ladies,’ by Rebecca Traister (book review) - Note for a...
By GILLIAN B. WHITE MARCH 1, 2016, New York Timesimage from“Throughout America’s history, the start of adult life for women — whateverelse it might have been destined to include — had been typically...
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The US State Department's Syria Hotline Staff May Not Speak Arabic — or...
By Avi Asher-Schapiro, news.vice.comimage fromMarch 4, 2016 | 7:15 amThe US State Department has set up a hotline to help document reports of violence in Syria, but some of the operators working the...
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The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the...
from: sott.netRay Williamspsychologytoday.comSat, 07 Jun 2014 14:57 UTC© reddit.comThere is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of...
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Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)
Jonathan Crow, openculture.com; via SP on Facebookuncaptioned image from entryIn 1949, George Orwell received a curious letter from his former high school French teacher.Orwell had just published his...
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America Will Never Call Native American Extermination ‘Genocide’ - Note for a...
bluenationreview.com; via a Facebook friendOver the weekend, an article floating around on Facebook caught my eye.It appeared in Indian Country Today Media Network: A professor at Cal State Sacramento...
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