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How to Fix Facebook? We Asked 9 Experts - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
By FARHAD MANJOO and KEVIN ROOSE OCT. 31, 2017, New York Times [Original article contains photos of the commentators and links.]image from article [caption not included]Colin Stretch, the general...
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When Politics Becomes Your Idol - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
David Brooks, Oct. 30, 2017, New York Times; see also, on Brooks's divorce.Image from article, with caption: A trump rally in Forida a day before the presidential electionExcerpt:I didn’t get to...
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Review: The Turn to Tyranny
Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journalimage from articleWe may never know what degree of personal obsession, political calculation and ideological zeal drove Stalin to kill and persecute so many....
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NYC terror attack: Sayfullo Saipov was here on diversity visa, Trump says....
Alan Gomez and Ashley May, USA TODAYSaipov image from articleThe Uzbekistan native arrested for the deadly truck rampage through a New York City bike path entered the United States under a visa program...
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Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? - Note for a...
Stephen Marche October 31, 2017, The New Yorkerimage (not from article) fromExcerpt:Self-determination is the source of America’s oldest political commitments and its deepest clichés—“Life, Liberty and...
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Russia Inquiry Fails to Unite a Nation - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
Jim Rutenberg, New York Timesimage (not from article) fromExcerpt:Between the promotion of alternative narratives and the way the social mediaplatforms have been so slow in describing their inadvertent...
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Fancy sleeping in Stalin’s room in Sochi? Now you can
Nikolay Shevchenko, rbth.com; via AH on Facebook; see also (2014 RFE article). JB comment: I would title the piece "The perfect place for a honeymoon" :)image from article and fromHowever bizarre this...
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An Icy Conquest - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
Susan Dunn, New York Review of BooksA Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North Americaby Sam WhiteHarvard University Press, 361 pp., $29.95[JB note: A thoughtful article that...
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Why Arthur Schlesinger’s ‘Disuniting of America’ Lives - Note for a...
By MICHAEL LIND NOV. 2, 2017, New York Times[Original article contains more links]From the NYT (Pamela Paul Editor of The New York Times Book Review@PamelaPaulNYT) via email: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr....
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Walter Isaacson: By the Book - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
NOV. 2, 2017, New York TimesImage from entry, with caption: Walter Isaacson Illustration by Laren TamakiThe author of “Einstein,” “Steve Jobs,” and, most recently, “Leonardo da Vinci,” hasa weakness...
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Americana -- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
John Brown [via Facebook]27 mins · Americana:"When Haley was five years old, her parents entered her in the 'Miss Bamberg' contest. The contest traditionally crowned a black queen and a white queen....
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Why you Hate Contemporary Architecture
BRIANNA RENNIX & NATHAN J. ROBINSON, currentaffairs.org via JS and MB on FaceookThe British author Douglas Adams had this to say about airports: “Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain...
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Students Rally to Remove a Thomas Hart Benton Mural Depicting the KKK at...
news.artnet.com; via LM and MS on Facebook.The mural is an homage to the Indiana press for breaking the Klan's grip on power in the state, but critics say its depictions of the KKK aren't just...
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One family’s divergent views of the Bolshevik revolution tell a tale of...
csmonitor.comBy Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer; Fred Weir, Correspondent / November 5, 2017As the world prepares to mark that seminal moment of the 20th century, perspectives on the consequences and...
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Looking for job security? Consider these 10 positions
Maurie Backman, The Motley Fool, USA Todayimage from articleIn today's company-hopping age, job security can be tricky to come by.Not only do workers tend to jump ship more frequently than in years...
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These are the 5 worst cities for Black Americans - Note for a discussion, "E...
Evan Comen and Michael B. Sauter, 24/7 Wall Street, USA TodayErie, PA. image from articleNationwide, the typical black household earns just 61 cents for every dollar the typical white household earns....
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Review: Nervous Neighbors: Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Allen C. Guelzo, Wall Street JournalTwo counties separated by the Mason-Dixon line experience the Civil War and its aftermath differently, yet share a sense of anxiety and regret. Allen C. Guelzo...
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Billionaires compared with the rest of us, by the numbers - Note for a...
Kevin McCoy, USA TODAYThe very rich really are very different from you and me, as author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. How different? A new report breaks it down by the financial numbers.The...
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Pre-Trump vs.Post-Trump: How Americans Feel Now - Note for a discussion, "E...
By DAVID LEONHARDT and STUART A. THOMPSON, New York TimesImage (not from article) fromExcerpt:Since Trump's victory, Republicans have become more satisfied with the economy and more comfortable with...
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D.C.’s Next Monument Could Honor Marion Barry
amren.comPaul Schwartzman, Washington Post, November 7, 2017The D.C. Council on Tuesday preliminarily approved a plan to erect an 8-foot-tall bronze statue outside city hall in [Marion] Barry’s honor,...
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