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The Messaging Woes of the Democratic Party
By Dhruv S. Kannan The year was 2016. Having beat back Bernie Sanders, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2016, assuaging the Washington establishment’s fears of another Dukakis-like policy wonk. The establishment reasoned that the popularity of Obama-era policy combined with a seemingly unelectable opponent. This reasoning […]
MoreAren't we all pawns
in the hands of time,
the greatest player
of them all?
- Chitra Banerjee Divakurni
Justice is
truth in action
- Benjamin Disraeli
I want to write a poem
for the women on Long Island
who, when I show them the knife
I carry in my purse,
tell me it’s not big enough.
- Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
“'Blah,
said Toad.”
- Arnold Lobel
If the farmer is rich,
then so is the nation.
- Amit Kalantri
Christmas Day
will always
be just as long as
we have we.
- Dr. Seuss
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
- Dr. Seuss
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