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“If Progressives Were Wise They Would Step Back”
“Election have consequences,” exclaimed our face-shootingest Veep, Dick Cheney. Just a few years later, President Obama flipped the script, springing that phrase on Eric Cantor during negotiations...
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“There’s Already An Evolution Taking Place Inside Of Cuba”
Friendships are fragile things. In his just-concluded trip to Cuba, President Obama met with Che Guevara’s ghost but was denied Fidel Castro in the flesh. Brother Raoul, now running the show more or...
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“It Doesn’t Necessarily Follow That A World Without Work Would Be Filled With...
For those raised under capitalism who’ve absorbed the teachings of that system, a post-scarcity Second Machine Age sans labor is awfully difficult to envision. It’s essentially the technology-driven...
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“It Has Been Seeping Into Our Lives In All Sorts Of Ways”
In yesterday’s post about Charlie Rose interviewing a fellow robot, I argued that the humanoid form we envision when we consider AI is a distraction from the actual creeping effects of the technology,...
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“Government Will Never Run The Way Silicon Valley Runs”
In an excellent New York Times Magazine piece, Jenna Wortham writes of the boon and bane that attends Barack Obama being the “first digital President,” the one who ushered into D.C. the start-up...
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“American Politics Is Always Somewhat Fluid”
This election revealed an evil that existed deep in the hearts of enough people, ill feelings previously stilled by expectations of civility. It was unloosed by the most disgraceful political campaign...
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“I Don’t Think Obama Is Convinced Of His Own Language Of Hope”
David Remnick has as ably as any journalist met the considerable challenge of analyzing the stunning election to our highest office of a cartoonish Reality TV star who is clearly unprepared for the...
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“It Will Not Be Pretty”
“He must be taken seriously,” Edward Luce wrote in the Financial Times in December 2015 of Donald Trump, as the anti-politician trolled the whole of America with his Penthouse-Apartment Pinochet...
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“There’s No Other Way To Explain Obama’s Inability To Imagine This Nation...
Hope is usually audacious but sometimes misplaced. Without that feeling of expectation in a country founded on white supremacy that has never erased institutional racism, Barack Hussein Obama would...
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“That’s Just A Terrible Darkening Of The National Outlook”
Barack Obama is a poet, but Marilynne Robinson is a better one. No offense to 44–I don’t think the Housekeeping author would be nearly as good a President. It’s just that sometimes a poet can see what...
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