And yet Minneapolis also offers a compelling answer to the question that democracy-loving Americans have asked for the past year: What can I do? No historical precedent exists for where we are.
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Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome, in many ways, has been replaced by Trump Exhaustion Syndrome: The populace notes the latest indignity, and then returns to business as usual.
My job is to help them move beyond their assumptions, in literature and everything else.
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This year will decide whether the hatred of women becomes the norm.
Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is also a visiting professor of humanities at Bard College and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the ...
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