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Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: About Actual Cares Era Fine Global Global Warming He Issue Most Neat Our Physicist Pressing Rush Senator Single Strongly Very Warming Which Would

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'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.

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Topics: Absolutely Because Clue Course Fears Flash Internet Media No Clue Novel People Reported Reporting Stoke Used Young Young People

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Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: About Angry Broken Competing Coverage Democracy Dinner Every Everything House How Inspires Our Really Represents Twisted Two White White House Year

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Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.

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Topics: Campaigns Exploit Fact Inept Journalists Math Most Nerds Political Politicians Regularly Socially Them

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Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

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Topics: Accent American Been Dumb Flatter Fraud His Impress Intellectual Job Rich Them Whose Writings Years

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For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

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Topics: American Congressional Disproportionate Gives Influence Most Old Older Our Over Part People Policy Political Political System Public Public Policy Represent Republicans Richer System Than Those Who

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Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.

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Topics: Attacks Conservative Did Halt Line Nothing Programs

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Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Also Always American Assault Benefit Crop Cut Dared Forever Insurance Like Medicare Party Poorest Programs Republican Republican Party Rich Spending Still Strictly

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There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Friendly Good Good Reason Liberal Reason Senators Should States Street Wall Wall Street

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The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Beholden Better Block Clinton Congress Democratic Democratic Party Goal Hillary Hillary Clinton Make Party Potential President President Clinton Sure

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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