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Rural America is the New 'Inner City' - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
Wall Street JournalA Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely populated counties have replaced large cities as America’s most troubled areas by key measures of socioeconomic...
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Moscow Muse Mark (MMM) Teeter on USA participation in WWI -- a documentary...
Mark H. Teeter [on Facebook] added 5 new photos.9 hrs · MOSCOW TV TONITE: American Agitprop 1.0Запечатленное время:“Прощание американки”/Telling Time:”An American March” (Documentary. Russia,...
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Zgibniew Brzezinski's passing (may he RPI; most sincere condolences to his...
In his scholarly certitude, Mr. Brezinski sometimes showed a tendency tobelieve that any disagreement between theory and reality indicated some fault on thepart of reality. -- New York TimesFrom a...
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The debate over Confederate monuments shows how far the U.S. has to go - Note...
washingtonpost.comMore than a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, Americans find themselves divided [JB emphasis] over its legacy. This month, the city of New Orleans completed the...
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Americans, Let’s Talk - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Roger Cohen MAY 30, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: Supporters of President Trump at a rally at the Denver State Capitol in February.Excerpt:Tens of millions of Trump opponents...
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Princeton — Yes, Princeton — Takes On the Class Divide - Note for a...
David Leonhardt, MAY 30, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: [...] a lower-income student at Princeton [...]Excerpt:PRINCETON, N.J. — Few American institutions have a history of...
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10 Russian words impossible to translate into English
May 29, 2017, Daria Aminova, special to RBTHThe English language has more than 1 million words. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to find an exact translation for certain Russian words, especially if the...
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The most and least racially diverse U.S. religious groups - Note for a...
BY MICHAEL LIPKA, pew research.org The nation’s population is growing more racially and ethnically diverse – and so are many of its religious groups, both at the congregational level and among...
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Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both? - Note for a...
pewresearch.org[JB non-expert comment: Does not the Census's confusion/lack of clarity on defining "race" and "ethnicity" (are these not a priori ways of simplifying the infinite individuality of human...
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A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Jill Lepore, New YorkerWhat to make of our new literature of radical pessimism.Image from article, with caption: Liberal and conservative dystopias do battle, in proxy wars of the imagination.Here are...
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Opinion: Lies vs. B.S.
via emailDavid LeonhardtOp-Ed Columnist NYTimes.comThree decades ago, the philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote an essay that would eventually become widely read — and that today offers insight into...
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What's a 'Covfefe'? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation - Humorous note...
What’s a ‘Covfefe’? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered NationThe debate over what the president meant effectively consumed Twitter — or at least a certain segment of it.NYTIMES.COMmore details...
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Where are your ancestors from? [...] Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
matadornetwork.com; via RB on Facebook [JB note: This interesting map seems to represent only the ancestry of "racially" white Americans -- and not African-Americans or Hispanics (although it does...
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According to Google Translate, "covfefe" means "Soviet" in Russian
image fromDownstateDemocrat, dailykos.comIt’s been over two hours since Donald Trump tweeted this:Despite the constant negative press covfefe— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2017You know, I...
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Finding the ways we honor U.S. Presidents in Richmond - Note for a...
Phil Riggan, Finding the ways we honor U.S. Presidents [sic] in Richmond, wordpress.comimage from entry [see below]*** Richmond has statues, monuments or cemetery statuary for five U.S....
View ArticleTrump’s United American Emirate - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Thomas L. Friedman, May 31, 2017, New York TimesExcerpt:Merkel is just the first major leader to say out loud what every American ally isnow realizing: America is under new management. “Who is America...
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The Top 10 states grads ditch after college
Paige DiFiore, USA TODAY(Photo: Emily Varisco, AP)The state where college students graduate isn’t always the state where they take their first job.In fact, some states are “simply terrible at holding...
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When America Barred Italians - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
By HELENE STAPINSKI JUNE 2, 2017, New York Times image from articleTwelve years ago, I began researching a family murder that happened in SouthernItaly in the 19th century. It took a decade to find the...
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When the Left Turns on Its Own - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Bari Weiss, ON CAMPUS, JUNE 1, 2017, New York Times [original article contains links]Image from article, with caption: Hundreds of students at Evergreen State College protested against the...
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The parable of Italians in the South - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
[JB note: A must-read for those interested in the often not so glorious complexity and diversity of the United States of America; thank you MP for sharing.]economist.com; via MP on Facebookimage from...
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