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Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Sam Blumenthal
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Opinion | The Sidney Awards
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At that moment, Sam was planning to give $15–$30 million to McConnell to defeat the Trumpier candidates in the US Senate races. On a separate front, he explained to me, as the plane descended into Washington, DC, he was exploring the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president. His team had somehow created a back channel into t
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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Beirne added his own high praise, which was that the attention Gurley received as a sought-after speaker at industry gatherings had secured for Gurley “a lot of mindshare.”
Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Zach Goldberg, a doctoral candidate at Georgia State University, observes that on key measures of racial attitudes, white liberals’ opinion has moved to the left of where black and Latino opinions are. White liberals are now less likely than African Americans to say that black people should be able to get ahead without any special help.
Matthew Yglesias • Reparations, Systemic Racism, and White Democrats’ New Racial Liberalism
Taylor Sabo
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