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"The first is mockery and humor — preferably salacious."
You all now have your assignment. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Their English Lit professors could have explained this to them a long time ago: Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake
If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?
www.theatlantic.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Columbia begins to toughen its language. view.info.alumdev.columbia.edu?qs=9c8c7ccdd...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Chris Eisgruber continues to make me proud to be a Princetonian. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If I were Greenland I'd be a little worried right now. Agent Orange just got humiliated and he's going to want to take it out on somebody.
April 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Heh. Seems silly but most of these pairings actually make a good deal of sense.
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7 of the most interesting wine pairings you can try tonight
From Girl Scout cookies to Hot Pockets to Takis, these unexpected wine pairings will delight your palate
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April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
More of this, please. Put the blame where it belongs.
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8 companies already adding tariff surcharges. Expect more to follow
Companies across a variety of industries are adding fees explicitly tied to Trump's trade war
qz.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Once again the NYT tells us about the Gulf of Mexico without using its name. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Gulf Coast Shrimpers See Hope in Trump’s Tariffs
After years struggling to compete with cheaper, farm-raised imported shrimp, shrimpers from Florida to Louisiana are optimistic that the new tariffs will help them.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Oh, Canada!
April 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If your 401(k) has just been vaporized, don’t worry. You can easily get a job and go back to work once they disappear all the immigrants.
April 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The stock market fell today by the largest one-day amount since ... Trump's first term.
April 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The claim here is, in essence, that Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours because it takes that long to catalog all the bad stuff Agent Orange and President Musk are doing. nymag.com/intelligence...
Cory Booker’s Speech Is the Broad Trump Indictment Democrats Need
The party has been searching for a precise silver-bullet argument against Trump 2.0. Booker has shown another way forward.
nymag.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM