Nobody expected that, and that's how things should be.
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The quicker I can get somewhere, the better.
Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.
Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.
White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.
I’m this girl. I’m a no makeup girl. I was trying to create this public image that was elegant and stylish, but that was just so clueless because I should have focused on who I really am instead.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Floods cause greater property damage and more deaths than tornadoes or hurricanes.
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Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
How fragile we are, between the few good moments.
I’ve observed my toddler, barely old enough to walk, confidently swiping her way through an iPad.
The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.
Whenever you check for a new post on Instagram or whenever you go on The New York Times to see if there's a new thing, it's not even about the content. It's just about seeing a new thing. You get addicted to that feeling.
I was reading all this Trump stuff, and it doesn't feel like we're reading news for the reason we used to, which was to get a better sense of what's going on in the world and to enrich yourself by being aware. It seems like we're reading wrestling rumors. It's like reading about what happened on Mon…
I'm not choosing ignorance. I'm choosing to not watch wrestling.
steelmanning makes you a better person. It makes you more charitable, forcing you to assume, at least for a moment, that the people you’re arguing with, much as you ferociously disagree with them or even dislike them, are people who might have something to teach you. It makes you more compassionate,…
I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.