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Bill Clinton was moderating this panel. On it were Mauricio Macri, a former businessman who had defeated Argentina’s
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
I write this to you from New York City, where we are governed by Democrats and we pay the highest taxes in the country, but that doesn’t mean we receive the best government services. Our transportation agencies are black holes for money, unable to deliver on their capital plans despite repeated increases in the dedicated taxes that fund them, becau... See more
The blue cities must be fixed
“Liberal?” Major Hackensack said it like the word “pedophile.” “You a liberal, British journalist?” I swallowed. The Iraqis were watching us too, wondering if their fates were being decided by this incomprehensible but clearly ill-tempered exchange. “You’ve been sent here because of the most conservative White House in living memory. Truly, Major,
... See moreDavid Mitchell • The Bone Clocks: A Novel
“Infrastructure, at its most fundamental level, is not about roads and bridges, cables and concrete. It’s about who we are, what we value, and what kind of society we want to create.”
— Eric Klinenberg
Physical Infrastructure Design
However, the commitment to protection, civil rights, and justice for LGBTQ people should be universal among Christians.
Jim Wallis • Christ in Crisis

Pishevar spoke as an insurgent, with none of the grace and sense of obligation of the man who accepts his own arrival. Nor did his bearing suggest any awareness that Uber and Airbnb, of which he loved to speak, now faced serious charges of exploitative and illegal behavior toward people who genuinely lacked power. In Pishevar’s mind, he and those c
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