People describe seeing an entity that takes on the form of your worst fears.
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I never slept well before in this condition.
If you hear something in the woods, you tell me. if you hear something in the water, you tell me. But under no circumstances are you allowed to take off your blindfold.
Please don't take my children!
Listen to me, we're going on a trip now, it's going to be rough.
Every contact we've had with the outside has brought us death!
When I hear ‘bisexual,’ I think ‘slut.’ It’s tacky, it’s gauche, it seems disingenuous that your genitals have no allegiance.
— Desiree Akhavan, Cecelia Frugiuele, Leila, Desiree Akhavan, Episode 1
Of course, not every kid has the same risk of becoming a victim. A large number of those gun deaths occur in poor neighborhoods.
The banking industry bought everything; they even bought their own facts. The industry commissioned three different studies, each of which was touted as independent. Each explained the urgent need to change the law—exactly the way the banking industry wanted it changed. One particularly damaging res…
This shouldn’t be a my-party-your-party exercise. We should work together with one nonpartisan staff.
Families are going broke because they buy too much stuff!
Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself, and that is just one of the many reasons he will never be president of the United States, unfortunately just like Hillary Clinton.
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every ten to fifteen years. But we figured out how to fix it. Coming out of the Great Depression, the country put tough rules in place that gave us fifty years without a financial…
I loved my mother. I wanted her to smile, to believe that I was doing the right thing. But that wasn’t going to happen. So I ducked my head and kept on going.
The Founding Fathers had called for bankruptcy protection in the Constitution itself, and surely even the banking lobby wouldn’t pick a fight with them.
Medical problems, job losses, and family breakups had laid these families low. Most had hung on and tried to repay long past any reasonable chance of doing so. As I saw it, the families in bankruptcy were mostly good people caught in a bad situation.
Rich Cordray did. Rich was fearless, and he led by example. Among other things, he investigated Capital One for misleading customers about the costs of free add-ons to their credit cards—free services that actually cost customers a total of $140 million. (He ultimately forced Capital One to send the…
They barely have time to fend off calls from angry creditors, let alone write letters to Congress. And most are profoundly, desperately ashamed of their situation. For many, the decision to file for bankruptcy proves to be the darkest secret of their entire lives. Politically speaking, they are almo…
What kind of people are we? What are our shared values? Many congressional Republicans think it’s fine to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to giant oil companies and corporations that park their money overseas, even as medical research budgets are hit by another round of cuts and care centers…