Avik Roy
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Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Kamala Harris
1. As both a district attorney and state attorney general, Harris pushed for a new statewide law that lets prosecutors charge parents with misdemeanors if their children are chronically truant. “We are putting parents on notice,” she declared. “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going ...
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Gillette Joins the Fight against ‘Toxic Masculinity’
On Monday, Gillette — the razor and shaving-cream company — joined the chorus of cultural forces decrying so-called “toxic masculinity.” The company ran an online commercial suggesting that the history of American masculinity is rife with sexual harassment, bullying, and cruelty — and that the new ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Issues Follow-Up to President Trump’s Address
She's not holding back.
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The New, New Anti-Semitism
The old anti-Semitism was mostly, but not exclusively, a tribal prejudice expressed in America up until the mid 20th century most intensely on the right. It manifested itself from the silk-stocking country club and corporation (“gentlemen’s agreement”) to the rawer regions of the Ku Klux Klan’s lunatic ...
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Trump Asks Turkish President Not to ‘Mistreat’ Kurdish Forces
President Trump urged the president of Turkey in a phone call Monday not to "mistreat" Kurdish forces who have fought alongside U.S. troops against the Islamic State.
“The President expressed the desire to work together to address Turkey’s security concerns in northeast Syria while stressing the importance ...
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Forget the Gillette Ad, This Is What an Attack on Masculinity Looks Like
I confess to being profoundly un-offended by the now-infamous Gillette ad. Yes, it was preachy, and the indictment of suburban dads made no sense (after all, our real problem isn’t mean dads, it’s not enough dads), but the message was little more than "bad things are bad, and good things are good.” No one ...
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The Politics of Snobbery, and Its Inverse
There is a longstanding myth that the two major U.S. political parties “traded places” on issues related to race, and that the debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — supported by most Republicans, but opposed by conservatives led by Barry Goldwater — was the pivot. But African-American voters already ...
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The Left, the Wall, the Truth
Democrats and others on the left offer three reasons for their opposition to building a wall on America's southern border.
1. A wall is ineffective.
2. A wall is too expensive.
3. A wall is immoral.
Each one is false, so false as to constitute lies. So, the only question is: Do Democrats and others on ...
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