Which Women Support Hillary (and Which Women Can’t Afford To) | The Nation

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke) I’m going to posit something radical: The most vocal support for Hillary Clinton comes from women in the commentariat, very much like myself, who have had to fight sexism to succeed in public-facing, white-collar professions and relate to Hillary’s struggle to do the same. Many…

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Charles Koch: This is the one issue where Bernie Sanders is right – The Washington Post

By Charles G. Koch February 18 at 5:44 PM Charles G. Koch is chairman and chief executive of Koch Industries. As he campaigns for the Democratic nomination for president, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) often sounds like he’s running as much against me as he is the other candidates. I have never met the senator,…

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Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia’s Collapse – The Atlantic

START “MORE FROM” Custom END “MORE FROM” Custom For half a century, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been the linchpin of U.S. Mideast policy. A guaranteed supply of oil has bought a guaranteed supply of security. Ignoring autocratic practices and the export of Wahhabi extremism, Washington stubbornly dubs its ally “moderate.” So tight is…

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The Time I Met Bernie Sanders at Hillary Clinton’s Party and I Chased Her Down the Stairs | New Republic

I talked to them a long time before I realized the second guy was a congressman. (Gmail archives have helped me remember what happened.) Later googling revealed he was New York representative Jerry Nadler. Democrats had just won a majority in the House for the first time since 1994, and Nadler was on the judiciary committee; he was telling…

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