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“Unlucky President, Lucky Man” Some guy from Georgia, a former governor, spoke at my university in 1975. Jimmy Carter. He seemed nice enough, but a long shot for the presidency. It wouldn’t be the last time I misjudged a candidate’s chances. James Fallows worked for him as a speech writer and reflects on the legacy of a lucky man and unlucky president. Jimmy Carter has always been the same person: Whatever his role, whatever the outside assessment of him, whether luck was running with him or against, Carter was the same. He was self-controlled and disciplined. He liked mordant, edgy humor. He was enormously intelligent—and aware of it—politically crafty, and deeply spiritual. And he was intelligent, crafty, and spiritual enough to recognize inevitable trade-offs between his ambitions and his ideals. People who knew him at one stage of his life would recognize him at another. Jimmy Carter didn’t change. Luck and circumstances did. Carter was easy to admire but harder to work for. He was driven to succeed and always engaging.
In a recent interview with Lee Camp, well-known police reform author and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, Alex S. Vitale, sheds light on the recent murder of Tyree Nichols and America's ongoing fight for police reform.
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On this week’s Lever Time Premium: a summation of The Lever’s coverage of the train derailment in East Palestine; and an update from a reporter on the ground.
Yvette Cooper's plan to rebrand ASBOs as 'Respect Orders' may be good politics – but it's terrible policy, writes former Anti-Social Behaviour Officer Nick Pettigrew
On this week’s Lever Time Premium: a summation of The Lever’s coverage of the train derailment in East Palestine; and an update from a reporter on the ground.
How the hell can we expect Americans to understand what the national debt means if the media doesn’t report it accurately?
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An unearthed paper suggests there are fears at the very top of Parliament that democracy is under threat, reports Josiah Mortimer
Türkiye's economy, reeling after the Feb. 6 earthquake, will need beneficial economic ties with Russia more than ever despite western pressure.
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Conley report submitted to union months ago says union stuck in the 80s Earlier this month, Baroness Kennedy published a damning report on sexual harassment in the TSSA union, following a whistleblower’s allegations against senior figures and the #MeTU movement that followed, that has led to a string of resignations and suspensions among the union’s […]
Urgent, descriptive, plainspoken, hard-edged—a glasswork of facts—the poetry of John Freeman seems to come from a place of intense inner weather, and his latest book, Wind, Trees, is a gust from that interior world, which is a version of your world or mine. I mean to say his style is subtle, but sharp as corners. The poems have a tough quality, a perspective that seems watchful, but always from the edge of things, looking in. They are nervy and aware—Freeman has worked as an editor, books and magazines, and as an essayist, a critic—but the poems at times have the airy lightness of W. S. Merwin. Wind, Trees was written, initially, without any punctuation, as if Freeman were writing out of his own version of the moment when Merwin’s punctuation—after The Lice—dissolved away, but in this case Freeman has added some of it back in, locally, case by case, where he needs it to slow down or regulate what would otherwise turn too breathless for a book trying to catch its own soul, so to speak, trying to stay the confusion.
They’ve shown us who they are No, I’m not going to quote Maya Angelou yet again. You can read the quote on the back of your eyelids by now. Anchorage Daily News: Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman sparked outrage online after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children. Eastman asked a series of questions during a MondayHouse Judiciary Committee hearing on adverse childhood experiences — such as physical and sexual abuse on children or growing up in a household marred by domestic violence — and how they can negatively affect a person throughout their lives. As part of the presentation, documents given to legislators estimated that when child abuse is fatal, it could cost the family and broader society $1.5 million in terms of trauma and what the child could potentially have earned over their lifetime. Eastman said that he had heard an argument, on occasion, that when child abuse is fatal, it could economically benefit a society.
You & Me, the three-part romantic drama from writer Jeremy Davis and EP Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who), has a new trailer from ITVX.
Rishi Sunak has nailed his Government’s successes on the support of those like Suella Braverman in the European Research Group – and finds himself trapped, writes David Lowther
Ukraine must have ran out of munnie so now the Biden regime has to send some USDs so they can pay pensions and fund other initiatives… 😂
Biden on aid to Ukraine - "It's going to allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people so they have something in their pocket."
— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 17, 2023
Biden is guaranteeing pensions and welfare for Ukrainians but can't guarantee aid for Ohio.
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1. “Let me bring you some lunch!”
2. “Late-stage capitalism is really hard.”
3. “Let me help bandage them up (practical support).”
4. “Want to meet up at the park tomorrow?”
5. “Let’s join the campaign to shorten the work week while retaining a living wage.”
6. “They are really cute kids. Thanks for brightening my day by seeing them jump and be happy.”
7. “Here’s an ice pack so they can feel better (so many kids seem to be calmed by ice packs).”
8. “One time, I let my kid play on the iPad for four hours because I was just so tired.”
9. “I can see that you’re doing a good job, even though it doesn’t always feel like it.”
10. “I’d be happy to watch them for a while right now while you do errands, scroll on your phone, or whatever you need to do.”
In the face of the often stark increases in poverty seen in the rich world since the pandemic and the inflationary crisis that has followed, the debt crisis currently afflicting the poor world has failed to breach the public consciousness in the Global North. In fact, the Global South debt crisis has been rumbling away […]
Open Rights Group has responded to government proposals to tackle domestic abuse in the UK. Policy Manager, Sophia Akram said: “It’s important that the government is committed to tackling domestic abuse and supporting the women and girls who are affected by it. However, plans to create a digital tool that would identify people as perpetrators […]
A stocktaking on the impact of the economic sanctions against Russia.
After pretending to be powerless, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is now talking tough and promising new railroad safety rules.
Incumbents do better than they ought to due to the opposition failing to unify sufficienlty against their main target.
The outcome of the Supreme Court case Sackett v. EPA may limit the ability to prevent pollution of our nation’s waters and combat climate change.
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