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Editor, The Atlantic magazine. Author, *My Age of Anxiety* & *Sarge: The Life & Times of Sargent Shriver* Boston-born & bred. RTs can mean anything or nothing

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  1. 12 hours ago

    "What the author [of the anonymous NYT op-ed] has just done is throw the government of the United States into even more dangerous turmoil. He or she has enflamed the paranoia of the president and empowered the president’s willfulness."

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    23 hours ago

    Read the piece is complaining about:

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    23 hours ago

    This is a handy cheat sheet for how WH senior staff really feels about President Trump, according to the Woodward book.

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    Sep 3

    Huh. Call me old-fashioned. But I would have thought that the point of a festival of ideas was to expose the audience to ideas. If you only invite your friends over, it’s called a dinner party.

    I hope that you will read David Remnick's full note to the staff about the reasoning behind the Steve Bannon event and its cancellation when it is available. I am hugely relieved that the event will not happen.
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  5. Sep 3

    “The idea that our work will speak for itself is hopelessly naive”—⁦⁩

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    Sep 2

    This new Audi commercial is pretty wild

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    We have identified the suspect involved in this incident that occurred in the 1800 block of Bladensburg Road, NE on 8/30. The incident was captured on a cell phone video and can be seen below. This case remains under investigation.
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    Sep 1

    You know whose funeral was *really* over-politicized...

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    Sep 1

    robert frost: writing poetry without rhyme is like playing tennis without a net roger federer: free verse it is

    OMG(🎥Eurosport)
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    Sep 1

    toxic masculinity

    Truck carrying Axe body spray explodes in Texas:
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    Aug 31

    Bar so low

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    Aug 28

    New: Devin Nunes flew to the U.K. this month to gather intel on Chris Steele from MI5, MI6, & GCHQ. But the agencies—wary that he was “trying to stir up a controversy," per a source—didn't meet with him.

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    Aug 28

    This story is... well, you just have to read it.

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    Aug 26

    Colin Sexton is the starting point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers who are in their longest NBA Finals streak in team history.

    IMPORTANT: President Trump currently presides over the longest running bull market in modern financial history, and the longest streak of job growth ever.
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    Aug 27

    Oswald must have been tough. He made the same face when he was shot as I do when I hit my funny bone.

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    Aug 27

    Wow. This ad...

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    FIRST LOOK: debuts outstanding ad using home video of nine-year-old with father Richard from August 29, 1991
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    Aug 16

    "Stossel is a passionate guide... He provides great insight and shows substantial courage in relating this very personal story." My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel

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    Aug 14

    In the Middle Ages, European kings were known to be terrible babysitters.

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    Aug 13

    “The ability to create scandals ultimately exhausts people. There are so many, you forget them, you can’t keep up and you’re numbed and your sense of what is normal is lost.“- to archives 2/17/2017

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    Aug 12

    Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: “I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales”

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    Aug 10

    This is a very good assessment (of a very bad idea), by

    The whole Space Force story is peak Trump. It's basically just Trump University but at the Pentagon
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