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Ben Hickey • Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.
Andrew Sullivan • Andrew Sullivan: See You Next Friday
America will never be the same after Milwaukee’s tent revival for the cult of Donald Trump | Will Bunch
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Brooks defines bobos as those who combine the bohemian (one “bo”) with the bourgeois (the other “bo”), making experience, emotion, and hip individuality—the bohemian—achievable through association with the right products, fashion, and elitist style—the bourgeois.4
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
After the McGovern convention in 1972, the Democratic Party became the home of educated professionals, racial minorities, and the shrinking unionized working class. The more the party identified with the winners of the new economy, the easier it became for the Republican Party to pull away white workers by appealing to cultural values.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The question is revealing. It tells me that the practice of public officials shopping “dirt” to reputable journalists has become so common, this twentysomething I’ve never met before has no compunction about raising it openly in front of his colleagues. He thinks his job, as he collects a salary from taxpayers, is to conduct and spread opposition r
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Meantime, I’m suffering a severe case of cognitive dissonance. The polls showing Clinton wildly ahead don’t match with what I see and hear in the real world as I travel the country, watch Trump’s rallies and Clinton’s speeches, and listen to friends and strangers of all stripes. So I begin examining the poll methodologies. I discover a lot that the
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