#Rhetoric

Wow, okay folks. So this evening @wweek published a extremely brief piece "reporting" on a statement we sent specifically to press earlier today. They claim that in said statement, we
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As every single report about the genocide of Uighur Muslims in Xianjiang shows, American "values" and "human rights" have a price. If the cost of espousing these "values" is too
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This post is not open for debate. I have listened to everyone else’s hatred, rhetoric and outright lies for the last four years, so now I am having my say.
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One big long-term, and long-running, problem for the GOP is that it still has no idea how to harness populist energy, and no idea how to fight back when Democrats
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A little :Let's talk about shame as a motivator. How effective is it in truly changing one's behaviour, but even more than that, one's thought patterns? Example inspired by something
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Why the Hindu narrative is failing abroad, especially the US: Hindus are generally left/centre-left voters in Western countries. Which means they tend to vote for progressive/liberal governments and policies which
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hi this is a (sort of) meme account but this race should be treated with the seriousness it deserves so i’d like to take a minute to explain the situation
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As Confederate statues came down this year, a commission deliberated on the fate of a huge portrait of Thomas Ruffin in the NC Supreme Ct. Ruffin was a slave batterer
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My new piece @WarOnTheRocks analyzes the White House's China strategy.I've heard five critiques:1) Too confrontation for admin critics2) Too restrained for CCP critics3) Too transactional for allies4) Too values-based for
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What would happen if we imposed a tax of 90% on the wealthiest in society?Many mainstream voices will tell you “It’s madness” or “it can’t be done”. But it has
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I’m glad you asked Erick, because this attempt —which you and other conservatives have made — to make a false equivalence between 2016 and 2020 is worth examining in more
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We will have some evidence by Labor Day re whether robust entry testing + surveillance testing allows successful reopening. @DukeU @BostonCollege have similar regimes in high spread v low spread
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had a conversation about nationalism in historiography earlier this afternoon and it reminded me of this op-ed on heneral luna that came out after the movie was releasedhttps://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/problem-with-heneral-luna i remem
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1) Barr has been trying to prop up President Trump's "massive fraud" narrative for months now, utterly without success, embarrassing himself and DOJ.Shortly after Trump started raging about mail-in ballots,
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We are joining 16 other voting rights and civil rights orgs in calling for the resignation of Gwinnett County elections chair Alice O'Lenick after she threatened state lawmakers and demanded
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Two things about this Paul Krugman column today and its historical argument.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/republicans-democracy.html?smid=tw-share 1. I don't understand Krugman's reading of Hofstadter. Krugman suggests
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