#America

America is so deeply authoritarian, that mainstream culture views all problems and solutions through the lens of leadership, which means that implicitly or explicitly America has resigned itself to trying
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Part of America's global hegemony has been based on its military and economic strength. This remains largely intact.But a huge part was based on a narrative image of the US
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This could not be a dumber take. We need far more mercy in our cruel, barbaric, all too often unjust system, and executive clemency is embedded into the Constitution for
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Amid America's #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada's single-payer system
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1/ Yesterday kicked off "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence" led by the @UN, and I wanted to share how racism worsens this problem for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous
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The backdrop of 2020 protests against police & our reckoning w/racism is "a parched landscape of stagnant progress toward racial parity, half a century after the passage of landmark Civil
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I was interviewed by the Voice of America's Russian service last night. It was hard to find any other Democratic-voting Russians with any name recognition, I guess. They asked me
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THREAD:1) A group that's worked with Michael Flynn is listed on the permit of the 1/5/21 "Rally to Revival" event at which Roger Stone spoke.1st Amendment Praetorian claims having veterans
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This is a great day for America. We cast aside the worst president in history. We replaced him with one who is a decent man, capable of empathy and full
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It has been a privilege to serve America’s farmers, ranchers, and producers the past four years. While my time at USDA is now over, the work continues—I promise to continue
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"The Midwest is, in fact, fairly frequently written about, but almost always in a way that weirdly disclaims the possibility that it has ever been written or thought about before."https://getpocket.com/explore/item/on-being-midwes
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Pointing out nationalism (nation state one) conceptually arose not long ago is of course a silly "dunk", of course you know this because groups are dynamic in their tribalism which
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Three MLK Day Thoughts: (1) If it weren't for MLK, I would not have graduated from 3 schools I attended and would not have my current job. That's how recent
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We know what Sen. Kaine is saying, right? That there wasn’t a legacy system of slavery on these shores, so America created one and that foundation of racism, specifically of
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What do we call what happened today if not a fascist rally? To recap: The goal was to overturn the results of a free and fair election because the far-right's
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This brings up something I’ve been meaning to articulate for awhile:In a country where 35+ million, mostly white, people self identity as Irish American (IA), it is not news that
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