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myth of American exceptionalism
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Only to DC did he carry a suit: the stakes justified the sacrifice. In recent decades, the laws in the United States had been loosened so that people and even corporations could donate effectively unlimited sums of money to political campaigns and super PACs, without the larger American public being able to see exactly what they were doing, or why.
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
When legislators in Michigan accommodated their affluent political base by refusing to raise taxes, the state balanced its books by canceling infrastructure upgrades and firing safety inspectors, factors that directly contributed to the Flint water crisis, which exposed upward of twelve thousand children—most of them poor and Black—to lead poisonin
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci
... See moreBill Bryson • One Summer
