simon montlake

@sjmontlake

Senior staff writer, The Christian Science Monitor. Learn-by-doing reporter, formerly in Indonesia, Thailand, China. Whiny Brit. Goofy Dad.

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  1. Mar 5

    WSJ editorial board vs "the most famous resident of Mar-a-Lago" via

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  2. Feb 26

    Keith Talent lives! "You can’t be nervous. You can’t be scared. You have to attack. I feel like that’s one of my strongest suits. Mentally, I have that ability to close it out."

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  3. Feb 1

    "In a democracy, force should never seek to overrule the will of the people or attempt to erase the outcome of a credible election." Biden on Myanmar coup - and Trump's fumbled attempt?

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  4. Feb 1

    Surveillance capitalism works

    Some people won't get vaccinated because of a conspiracy theory that vaccines are tracking devices, while carrying actual tracking devices in their pockets and using them to post about vaccines.
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  5. Jan 27

    Teaching the U.S. Capitol riot is tricky. Especially if the teacher was there. via

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  6. Jan 20

    Sign of a changing South: Raphael Warnock joins Senate via

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  7. Jan 11

    Thinking back to 2016 US election and GOP attack ads that Hillary Clinton would be a "divisive president". Hmmm

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  8. Jan 7

    Florida man.

    The man who took the speaker's podium during yesterday's Capitol riot is not, alas, Via Getty. He's Adam Johnson, a 36-year-old Florida man, per the Miami Herald. cc
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  9. Jan 6

    US news anchors intoning gravely that never has the Capitol witnessed such an assault appear to have forgotten the Brits burned it down in 1814.

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    Jan 6

    It doesn't border on sedition. It is sedition. Here is the statute:

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  11. Jan 6

    He's a man of his word

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    Jan 6

    I've been studying far right for 25 years. They have never been so emboldened. In last decades cowardly and opportunistic mainstream politicians in Europe and US have redefined loud minority as silent majority and fed their sense of victimhood. It's high time to defend democracy!

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    Jan 6

    Before the election, Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Now we are seeing why.

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  14. 28 Dec 2020

    Mass vaccination = opportunity for change

    Great read of 2020: As COVID-19 puts a spotlight on nursing homes, advocates for smaller-scale elder care see an opportunity for reform.
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  15. 24 Dec 2020

    I wrote about developing countries in Africa/Mideast that more-or-less contained - defying most pundits. Now they face a biting economic recession. With reporting by

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  16. 3 Dec 2020

    The price of democracy = $4.8 billion. Good deal for political consultants and media platforms. Bumper year for the US election-industrial complex.

    The liberal online donation clearinghouse ActBlue processed $4.8 billion (!) in the 2020 election cycle for 22,000 different candidates and organizations, via 14.8 million unique donors, per release.
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    20 Nov 2020

    US Crown Prince, Donald "Baby Don" Trump Jr, 42, diagnosed with coronavirus in what many say could be an attempt to kick him and his girlfriend out of the presidential palace, in a nation where adult kids are increasingly reluctant to move out of their parents' home.

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  18. 18 Nov 2020

    Don’t you need to admit guilt first? Imagine that.

    Opinion | Michael Conway: If President-elect Joe Biden hopes to fulfill his pledge to unify the nation, he should do the unthinkable and pardon Donald Trump. -
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  19. 17 Nov 2020

    My story on with . Can Thai monarchy resist pressure to reform - and how do royalists see the conflict?

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  20. 17 Nov 2020

    Right-wing populism, Anglo-American edition. Sound familiar? "He has mastered the use of error, omission, exaggeration, diminution, equivocation and flat denial. He has perfected casuistry, circumlocution, false equivalence and false analogy."

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