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David Faris

Chicago

Writer at Newsweek

Writer at Slate

Writer @Newsweek, @Slate, @TheWeek. Prof. of Politics @RooseveltU. Author, IT'S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Regular guest @bennyjshow. Views are mine.

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  • 1 week ago | newsweek.com | David Faris

    As the second Trump administration lurches from one self-inflicted crisis to another in a seemingly relentless quest to destroy both the material and moral foundations of American power, Americans will need to get comfortable with their new status as denizens of a global pariah state. Gone is the hope that Donald Trump and his MAGA movement were some kind of aberration.

  • 2 weeks ago | newsweek.com | David Faris

    President Donald Trump's insane self-immolation tariff regime that he announced on April 2 at least temporarily met its waterloo when he paused levies on many countries for 90 days on Wednesday. This is unsurprising, given that it was perhaps the first time in world history a democratically-elected leader has intentionally sabotaged his own country's economy and power.

  • 3 weeks ago | slate.com | David Faris

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  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | David Faris

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  • 3 weeks ago | theweek.com | David Faris

    Thinking in terms of "generations" is a kind of shortcut to help us understand social and economic differences in age cohorts over time. Sometimes, though, it contributes to sloppy analysis or cliche-driven over-generalization. Generational names and birth years are therefore contested social constructs that are nevertheless widely influential in public discourse. Where did these ideas come from, and what is the difference between a Baby Boomer, a Millennial and a member of Gen Alpha?

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David Faris
David Faris @davidmfaris
6 Jan 25

RT @sethmaxon: Read @davidmfaris on the success of January 6th: “Virtually every person tasked with bringing Trump and his allies to justic…

David Faris
David Faris @davidmfaris
1 Jan 25

Oh c’mon. The story is not about rural food deserts. It explicitly talks about people driving hours to save absurdly small amounts of money on bread as part of an inflation narrative. If they were driving two hours for -all of their groceries- then why didn’t they say that?

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David Faris
David Faris @davidmfaris
25 Nov 24

Now might be a good time to re-evaluate which political party you support, unless you think mass deportations > saving children’s lives with vaccines.

Seth Mandel
Seth Mandel @SethAMandel

Earlier in my career I did some research work for health experts and a lot of it had to do with vaccines. A key thing to me was that they had changed the value of the life of a child. We stopped just expecting a certain number of children to die from seasonal maladies. Miracle.