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In every state, pessimism about Trump, Clinton and the impact of the election...
image fromBy Dan Balz and Emily Guskin September 7, Washington PostThe presidential campaign has intensified long-standing political divisions, but there is one area of broad agreement among voters in...
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U.S. Latino Population Growth and Dispersion Has Slowed Since the Onset of...
pewhispanic.orgSept. 8South still leads nation in growth overall, but three counties in North Dakota top list of fastest-growingBY RENEE STEPLER AND MARK HUGO LOPEZThe nation’s Latino population has...
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What is the Electoral College? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
worldatlas.comIn each state, whichever party garners a majority of popular votes, regardless of how narrow the margin, wins all the electoral votes. By forcing residents in each state ultimately to...
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How Ethiopians in the US cling onto their heritage - Note for a discussion,...
bbc.com (2014)By Damian ZaneBBC Africa, WashingtonContinue reading the main storyRelated StoriesAfrican leaders gather for US summitUS-Africa summit: What does Obama hope to achieve?Ethiopia profileThe...
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African immigrant population doubling each decade; D.C. area among group’s...
By Pamela Constable October 1, 2014, Washington Postimage fromThe number of African-born residents in the United States has doubled every decade since the 1970s, with the greater Washington region...
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A Rising Share of the U.S. Black Population Is Foreign Born
9 Percent Are Immigrants; and While Most Are from the Caribbean, Africans Drive Recent Growthimage from reportFBY MONICA ANDERSON, pewsocialtrends.org [original article contains charts]OverviewA record...
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Black Nationalism and Liberation - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Garrett Felber [see], bostonreview.netNation of Islam counter-demonstration at NAACP rally in Harlem, 1961 / Photograph: NAACP collection, Library of CongressIn a world where Donald Trump’s...
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We Need ‘Somebody Spectacular’: Views From Trump Country - Note for a...
Roger Cohen, New York Times; see also.Appalachian voters know perfectly well the candidate is dangerous. But they’re desperate for change.Image from article, with caption: Mitch Hedges checks his...
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No Comment re former Secretary of State Clinton ...
From a contemporary USA "sexual" perspective by a lady (or, should I say "a person of the female gender") in a NYT article re Hillary Clinton; here's a key quote from the piece, another journalistic...
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Make America Small Again: Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
[Review of] The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, Yuval Levin, Basic Books, 272 pagesBy ROD DREHER • August 17, 2016 via LH on Facebookuncaptioned...
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Build the wall - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Postimage (not from article) fromJust because Donald Trump isn’t qualified to be president — and just because much of his agenda is hateful and undesirable — doesn’t...
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Yes, half of Trump supporters are racist - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
Dana Milbank, Washington Postimage fromBALTIMORE — Hillary Clinton may have been unwise to say half of Donald Trump’s supporters are racists and other “deplorables.” But she wasn’t wrong.If anything,...
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Median incomes are up and poverty rate is down, surprisingly strong census...
Don Lee, Los Angeles Times [original articl contains more charts and a link to the Census report]The economic recovery is finally providing relief to America's long-running problem of stagnant...
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Carla Hayden becomes the first woman, first black to lead Library of Congress
Susan Page, USA Today(Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY)Chief Justice John Roberts is slated to swear in Carla Hayden on Wednesday to lead the Library of Congress, the world's largest library, created in...
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Another must-read movie review by brilliant Moscow-based film critic (among...
Mark H. Teeter shared Moscow TV Tonite's post.5 hrs · MOSCOW TV TODAY: Whose ‘Catastrophe’ Was It Anyway?СССР. Крушение/USSR:The Collapse (Documentary. Russia, 2011)(Istoria,13:15 & 22:25)-->...
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Safe spaces are not the only threat to free speech
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian [original article contains links and a video]Image from article, with caption: ‘It is an abuse of language to suggest that anyone can seriously be unsafe because...
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The Era of American Global Dominance Is Over
Huffington PostGraham E. FullerFormer vice chairman, CIA’s National Intelligence Council; Author “Breaking Faith”SASHA MORDOVETS VIA GETTY IMAGESYou might recall the term “Eurasia” from high school...
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It’s no longer the economy, stupid: Our identity politics are polarizing us -...
Washington PostBy Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer September 15 at 6:57 PMImage from article, with caption: Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump visit his golf course Turnberry in Ayr, Scotland....
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Allen Ginsberg in Krakow, late 1980s ...
Ginsberg image fromFrom a Facebook entry (slightly edited):John Brown American anti-establishment poet Ginsberg (or so he was labeled) came to Krakow, Poland (its intellectual capital, home of the...
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In Places With Fraying Social Fabric, a Political Backlash Rises - Note for a...
Bob Davis and Gary Fields, Wall Street Journal; via LH on FacebookDonald Trump gets strong support where churches, civic groups and safety net are in trouble; discombobulated Reading, PaDING, Pa.—This...
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