Jamie Malanowski

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FEBRUARY 2019: “AMERICA, DO NOT COMMIT CRIMES WITH CHECKS”

2.28 Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: In 1980, the highest-earning men actually worked fewer hours per week than middle-class and low-income men, according to a survey by the Minneapolis Fed. But that’s changed. By 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men had the longest average workweek. In that same time, college-educated men reduced their …

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JANUARY 2019: “WE NEED A NEW ARCHITECTURE”

1.31 The Polar Vortex comes to New York 1.31 George Will in the Post: “[Klobuchar‘s] special strength, however, is her temperament. Baseball, it has been said, is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. That is also true of politics, another day-by-day game with a long season. It requires an emotional equipoise, …

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JANUARY 2019: “THE BUCK STOPS WITH EVERYBODY”

1.21 Wealth held by the world’s billionaires has grown from $3.4 trillion in 2009, right after the meltdown, to $8.9 trillion in 2017. (UBS and PwC Billionaires Insights via Bloomberg) The 3.8 billion people who make up the world’s poorest half saw their wealth decline by 11% last year. (Oxfam, which works to alleviate poverty, …

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NOVEMBER 2018: “MADDENINGLY UNACKNOWLEDGED”

11.30 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president, dies at 94. 11.30 Barck Obama, quoted in The Atlantic: “There was a reverence there for that [Oval] office that is independent of you, and if you don’t feel that, then you shouldn’t be there. Because a lot of fights, a lot of sacrifices, a lot of bloodshed …

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AUGUST 2018: “WE ARE THE MOST DESTABILIZING FORCE IN THE WORLD”

8.16 Paul Waldman in the Post: “The problem of inequality didn’t start with Trump. He has, however, done everything he can to make it worse. He gave a gargantuan tax break to the wealthy and corporations; the latter took that tax break and spent it on stock buybacks, which has the effect of boosting stock …

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JULY 2018: “THIS SAD, EMBARRASSING WRECK OF A MAN”

7.17 Megan McArdle in the Washington Post: The poor are still poor because, despite their material goods, they still lack public dignity and control over the most important facts of their lives, such as where they live and how their children are educated. By those measures, the War on Poverty is far from over; indeed, …

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JUNE 2018

6.28 Arnold Schwarzenegger: “It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda. I mean, what are you going to bring back next? Floppy disks? Fax machines? Beanie Babies? Beepers? Or Blockbuster? Think about it. What if you tried to save Blockbuster?” 6.28 Stanley Greenburg: “Democrats should not be distracted by …

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