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NYT responds to criticism of its retrospective coverage of the Tea Party, which omitted some of the most salient facts about the Tea Party.
This sentence seems to be what they added, laying it all off on the perceptions of "Mr. Obama's allies."
Suppose, rather than this tack-on job, they took the idea seriously. What if this solves Jeremy Peters' "DNA" conundrum that the Tea Party was popular but the ideas that it was permissible to associate with it were not? What if it's backed up by data? journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
That would lead them down the road that NYT under Baquet seems desperate to avoid: that the throughline of GOP politics from the Santelli speech to this week's G7 summit is not to do with small govt or health insurance but revenge for the election of the first black president.
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Holy hell, look at footnote 3 too. uscis.gov/sites/default/…
So let's break this down. Immigration law is incredibly complicated and illustrating it with John McCain counterfactuals probably confuses more than it illuminates. Better to start with the basics.
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Stealing McCabe’s retirement wasn’t enough for someone? nytimes.com/2019/08/26/us/…
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What does “within cultural circles” mean?
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