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theatlantic.com | Franklin Foer
Even the educated mind, or perhaps especially the educated mind, is skilled at deflecting harsh realities. That’s why so many white-shoe lawyers have failed to publicly support their colleagues in firms that President Donald Trump has targeted. It’s why universities have barely fought him in court, even as he has butchered their funding.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Franklin Foer
When I walked into Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn apartment, he was puttering around in his socks. This wasn’t household policy, the 74-year-old Democratic Senate minority leader assured me, so there was no need for me to shed my shoes.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Franklin Foer
In January, when the historian Avi Shilon returned to Columbia University from winter break, a thought coursed through his mind: If calm can take hold in Gaza, then perhaps it could also happen in Morningside Heights. Just a few days earlier, in time for the start of the semester, Hamas and Israel had brokered a cease-fire in their war. Over the many months of that war, Columbia was the site of some of America’s most vitriolic protests against Israel’s actions, and even its existence.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Franklin Foer
6 hours agoTrump has turned sharply against South Africa in recent weeks. Some onlookers think the primary audience is nativist Trump supporters at home. You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to …
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1 month ago |
amandala.com.bz | Deshan Swasey |Franklin Foer |Harper Collins
Pele helped Brazil win the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970. (Image: Hans-Jürgen Schmidt/HJS-Sportfotos/picture alliance)(shared by Evan X Hyde)It begins in 1940 on the frontier west of Rio, in an impoverished town called Tres Coracoes. With his slight frame (145 pounds at the start of his career), Edson Arantes’s body seemed more suited to shoe shining and the resale of tobacco gathered from discarded cigarettes, his first vocations.
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