Jamie Malanowski

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DECEMBER 2018: “I WILL TAKE THE MANTLE FOR SHUTTING IT DOWN”

12.13 Margaret Atwood: The systematic effort to drive a rift between access to knowledge and the citizens of a country has a familiar ring to this dystopian novelist. When I wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, I made sure that nothing went into it that had not come from somewhere in history. I used journalists, historians, and …

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CRUELTY IN OUR NAME

Right before our eyes, a catastrophe is taking shape on our southern border. And like the orderly, well-argued, reasonably presented policies that permitted racial segregation, the internment of Japanese nationals, restricting Jewish immigration in the 1930s, and other ugly, shameful moments in our history, this one rises from our failure to recognize costs of political …

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JUNE 2016

6.29 Eduardo Porter in the Times: “The British political scientist Andrew Gamble at the University of Cambridge has argued that Western capitalism has experienced two transformational crises since the end of the 19th century. The first, brought about by the Depression of the 1930s, ended an era in which governments bowed to the gospel of …

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MAY 2016

5.31 Rick MacLeish dies at 66. “In the first period of Game 6, which clinched the title, MacLeish controlled a face-off in the Bruins’ end, sliding the puck to a teammate, Andre Dupont, who let fly with a slap shot that MacLeish, skating across the goal mouth, deflected into the net with the heel of …

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APRIL 2016

4.30 Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Association dinner: “The republican establishment is incredulous that he is their most likely nominee. Incredulous. Shocking. They say Donald lacks the foreign policy experience to be president. But in fairness, he has spent years meeting with leaders from around the world: Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan. …

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REPUBLICANS IN FREEFALL

The American economy remains listless, unemployment remains appallingly high, our wars–wars!–meander on their bloody way, and a significant portion of the electorate doesn’t like the president and is angry about his leadership. At eighteen months away from an election, these elements would usually provide more than enough parts for the opposition party to think feel …

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