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The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

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I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

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'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

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Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

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Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

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I'm simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.

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Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

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The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.

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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 21st, 1973

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