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Reporter and writer. Book w/ 'Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America.' Views=100% personal, not representing any institution.

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    May 18

    A shrewd report on a lively session at last night, with and , plus podcast attached.

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    19 hours ago

    For the law-and-order crowd this July 4th: Buying and transporting illegal fireworks over state lines — which tons of people do! — is a misdemeanor that carries more jail time than unlawfully crossing the border. Yet you’ll wake up tomorrow free and with your families intact.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    The last sentence (acknowledging possibility of leaping out) saves this, I guess. and h/t Happy Independence Day.

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    17 hours ago

    I read this article twice and I still couldn't find the part that pointed out that immigrants are LESS likely to commit crimes than US-born. Or that families are being separated for far more than a day or two. Signed, an immigrant.

    NEW: TRUMP has helped make a political force of families hurt by undocumented immigrant crimes. After he provided them a platform last month, their groups saw $$$ surge. Now they're endorsing other immigration hardliners, like .
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  5. 11 hours ago

    Before the fireworks, nice way to catch up on the reinvention of America. “Rural by Choice,” at Aspen.

    You can watch , , and myself moderated by at talking about our work and why it matters to do our work in rural places. Video here:
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  6. 22 hours ago

    Worth doing once in your life. Prepare to enjoy your beer served in a plastic bag, and drunk through a straw.

    Big time! More than 1,300 types of beer will be presented at the upcoming beer festival in Qingdao
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  7. Jul 3

    Agree. In 1968: -A presidential candidate and a Nobel peace prize winner both assassinated; -Average 300 US troops (and many more Vietnamese) killed per WEEK in VN; -Dozens of cities with outright riots; -US president says he won’t run -George Wallace carries 5 states

    It’s also a preposterous evaluation by any standards. What on earth do they think was better then? Seriously! It’s just indefensible.
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  8. Jul 3

    As mentioned earlier: the more people notice this development, the better. T Friedman on why the US is still functional on the local level. For more on this theme:

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    Jul 3

    Instead of penalty shootouts, soccer should decide tied matches by having players writhe on the ground in agony and see who convinces the ref they are truly dying

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  10. Jul 3

    Exactamento, to what says. Reporters are a bedraggled lot. But even the most frayed group of people have points of pride, and for reporters this is the fundamental one.

    And it's insulting to even have to point this out, but 99 percent of journalists would pitch a tent on a colony of fire ants before they'd invent a quote.
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  11. Jul 3

    Hallelujah.

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    Drinking 6 to 7 cups of coffee a day might not only keep you awake, it may also make you live for longer, a new study says
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  12. Jul 3

    Main precedent I’m aware of is Jimmy Carter sometimes talking alone with Sadat and Begin at Camp David in 1978. But Carter had encyclopedic knowledge of these issues; zero cloud of suspicions; parallel detailed negotiations by staffs of all 3 countries. Once again, this is new.

    Trump is planning a one-on-one meeting with Putin without any of his aides present. Even for a president without Russia-related suspicions hanging over him, this would be a terrible idea.
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  13. Jul 3

    Important + sensible thread (of course, I *would* say that, since it parallels what I’ve argued): -Fear rhetoric (FR) about immig, at period when most Americans calm about it; -FR about crime, while crime going down; -FR about trade, entirely mis-matched to current trade patterns

    Hi, everyone! Today's post is about how Trump is fighting a battle with the ghosts of the past - attacking yesterday's problems and ignoring today's.
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    Jul 3

    Thanks, for having me! Great panel on Xi and Putin with and :

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  15. Jul 2

    Without comment …

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  16. Jul 2

    As if you didn’t already have enough reasons to watch Shark Week: It routinely stars (distant nth-degree cousins) Chris and Monique Fallows, shark photogs extraordinaire!

    Shark Week 30th Anniversary AIR JAWS RETURNS Written by Monique Fallows When we began filming the very first Air Jaws: Sharks of South Africa show for Shark Week back in 2001 we brought the now famous breaching...
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  17. Jul 2

    This is significantly bad. (Not story, which is very good, but what it reports.) Parallel: foreign univ or think tank operates in US, and foreign scholar criticizes current US policy. Foreign univ agrees to remove him. Unfortunately, increasingly easy to imagine.

    My scoop: a British joint venture uni in China has removed a foreign academic from management after he wrote a blog post critical of the 19th party congress
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  18. Jul 2

    Very instructive compare-and-contrast: 1) Story on perils of flattening everything into “red state/blue state,” classifying people mainly by views of Trump, etc + 2) “Purple families” in NYT

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  19. Jul 1

    I agree with this thread.

    And instead of spreading opportunity,Trump is concentrating far further ...
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  20. Jul 1

    2/2 The next time you hear about journalists as “enemies of the people” etc, think of these two young people and what they are doing, and will do.

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    "Are you having any second thoughts about journalism as a profession now?" Here's what and told me
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  21. Jul 1

    1/2 As reporter, and as citizen, proud and touched to see people like and @RachelPacella devoting their lives and efforts to this pursuit.

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    .: "Did any of you fear this would happen?" Capital Gazette reporter : "Not to this extent, never"
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