To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, May 10, 2024

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The Lessons Of Rejection – Or How Cheating Cheats Our Kids

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I will never forget the day. I stood just inside the door with the thin pile of envelopes. I opened them one by one. Radcliffe [Harvard] said no. Yale said no. Princeton said no. Pembroke [Brown] said no. The top male schools were opening their doors to the brightest women in America. […]

Is The U.S. Full? Wrong Question

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BY FROMA HARROP “Our country is full,” President Trump said in regard to the immigration debate. Is this true? That depends. Some parts seem full, and some parts are definitely not. What the United States does need is a smart conversation on population. Nearly every point made in this “America, full or not?” discussion bears […]

Insurance Anxiety

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’m lucky. Very lucky. There are a million things I wish I could do that I am absolutely terrible at. But there is one thing I am very, very good at, by necessity. I know how to fight with insurance companies. My sister, who was head of group claims for a major […]

Bernhardt Would Be Another Disaster At Interior

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BY FROMA HARROP Back in 2016, candidate Donald Trump said he opposed a Republican bill designed to grease the wholesale transfer of America’s public lands to states. “I don’t like the idea because I want to keep the lands great,” he told Field & Stream, “and you don’t know what the state is going to […]

Are The Racists On Viral Videos Mentally Ill?

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BY FROMA HARROP Most everyone who spends time on social media has come across videos in which a white person is screaming racial insults, usually at a Latino or African-American. A recent example shows a woman at a ShopRite in East Haven, CT, barraging a black man with racist invective. But look more closely at […]