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Plato would be horrified by Trump’s rise
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post [JB note: Students kind enough to have taken my Georgetown University course, "Propaganda and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Historical Overview" will recognize in the below...
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How the Other Fifth Lives - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Thomas B. Edsall April 27, 2016, New York Times [original article contains links and charts]uncaptioned image from articleFor years now, people have been talking about the insulated world of the top...
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"Русский класс"Нормана Рокуэлла [Norman Rockwell's "Russian class"]
John Brown and Ivan Kurilla shared Российско-американские сюжеты's post.+11 John Brown shared Российско-американские сюжеты'spost.5 mins · Российско-американские сюжеты added 15 new photos.3 hrs ·...
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Apartheid in America - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
Most ‘enlightened’ whites in the antebellum era saw segregating free blacks as the only possible peaceful solution to the horror of slavery.By MARK G. SPENCER, wall street journalApril 28, 2016 7:01...
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The world according to Trump
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after his foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on April 27. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)By Charles Krauthammer...
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The coming Republican demographic disaster, in 1 stunning chart - Note for a...
By Chris Cillizza April 25, Washington Post Start here.That's a chart taken from a new Pew study of the Hispanic population in the United States. Here's what you need to pay attention to: Almost six in...
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Americana (on going)
See/hear (live)SPAN's coverage of the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner features guest red carpet arrivals, interviews on preparations for the event.
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Teeter on Obama, U.S./Russia
JB Note: In my modest opinion, Mark Teeter is one of the best observers of Russia today. Unlike many USA commentators about this complex country, he actually lives there and speaks the language...
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America Needs a Prime Minister - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Government is broken, and changing the type of people elected to Congress won’t make a difference. Amending the Constitution will.Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Terry Moe on his new book, “Relic,”...
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Trump understood the voters the GOP forgot - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
Supporters of Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer at a campaign rally in Costa Mesa, Calif., last month. (Mike Blake/Reuters)By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer May 2 at 7:56 PM The...
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Republicans and Democrats are fixated on nostalgia — and have deformed our...
“Freedom From Want” by Norman Rockwell, 1943. (National Museum of American Art)By Michael Gerson Opinion writer, Washington Post May 2 at 7:56 PM The 2016 presidential race already counts an...
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The Fractured Republic -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
amazon.comBasic Books, 2016Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization...
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American Anger: It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Other Party - Note for a...
Lynn Vavreck APRIL 2, 2016, New York Timesimage from articleAmericans are angry. That’s the sentiment that many believe is driving the2016 election. They are angry because the rich are getting richer,...
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Democracies end when they are too democratic. And right now, America is a...
Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine; via JMPlato image fromAs this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato’s Republic. It has unsettled — even...
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The American Dream is Out of Reach
takefiveblog.orgimage fromPOSTED BY EMILY CREIGHTON (george Washington University student) ⋅ MAY 4, 2016⋅The Millennial generation makes up the largest share of the workforce today. They are graduating...
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If Trump destroys GOP, he may take DNC down with him: Jonah Goldberg - Note...
Jonah Goldberg3:18 a.m. EDT May 4, 2016, USA TodayHow will Democrats run against a Republican Party that also advocates entitlements and trade barriers?(Photo: Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)...
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The State of Our Union -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interestimage (not from article) fromThe biggest deficits in the United States these days are not the ones grabbing the headlines.The state of our union can be summed...
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Diplomacy is footnote-free ...
Via Ambassador Jack Matlock, Jr. on Facebook; from One China, Two Freemansimage fromExcerpt: Diplomacy is footnote-free, applied scholarship that seeks truth from foreign facts and tries to use this to...
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One Week in April, Four Toddlers Shot and Killed Themselves - Note for a...
By JACK HEALY, JULIE BOSMAN, ALAN BLINDER and JULIE TURKEWITZ MAY 5, 2016, New York Timesimage fromExcerpt:In a country with more than 30,000 annual gun deaths, the smallestfingers on the trigger...
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Moscow-based Movie Critic Mark Teeter on the film, "Captain America: Civil...
Mark H. Teeter added 2 new photos.Yesterday at 4:46pm · THE PRICE OF CROSS-CULTURAL GRANDPARENTING:You Have to Go to Tedious Movies You Wouldn’t See Otherwise – and in a Foreign Language; or 2½ Hours...
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