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“Rapists,” “aliens,” “parasites”? No: Workers
At the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump shot his nationalist message once again: “The future does not belong to globalists,” he said. Hours before the Democrats announced the beginning of the impeachment inquiry process, the president used the...
For all the talk about the death of facts, old school journalism is still as powerful as ever
“She felt that the story wasn’t fully told.” That’s how Rick Hirsch, managing editor of the Miami Herald described why the newspaper’s journalist, Julie K. Brown started to work on a story that became one of the most consequential in recent years. It’s about...
False notes in the Immigrant Song
“Our only goal will be the western shore,” goes Led Zeppelin's “Immigrant Song.” I thought of this line a lot whenever the immigration came up when we, the 2019 WPI fellows, met with different think tanks and media outlets. In my interpretation, the “western shore”...
Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world
Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that reality is one of the few words that means nothing without quotation marks. The collapse of reality is not just a Russian phenomenon; it went global.