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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.

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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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