It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
GENE WEINGARTENI don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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