Opinion | The Way Harris Lost Will Be Her Legacy
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Opinion | The Way Harris Lost Will Be Her Legacy
Saved by Jasmine Roseboro
Clinton’s loss, which I will mourn forever, might reiterate the importance of making space for the difficult woman. It might also point toward the way that valuing a woman for her difficulty can, in ways that are unexpectedly destructive, obscure her actual, particular self.
Palin kept looking for a second act that never came. She suffered the pathetic fate of being a celebrity ahead of her time. For with her candidacy something new came into our national life that was also traditional. She was a western populist who embodied white identity politics. In her proud ignorance, unrestrained narcissism, and contempt for the
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It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed