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I remain quarantined in Hubei, safe but unsure how long I’m stuck here. This is my @nybooks story. Spoiler alert: the UK abandons me at the end. nybooks.com/daily/2020/02/04… #coronaviruschina #nCoV19
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Remainers and Leavers alike have been caught off-guard by the strength of feeling aroused. And it’s not even remotely fanciful to imagine that the schism within Britain will haunt the polity for decades
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"What’s needed today is a popular front against populism."
-- Gary Kasparov @nybooks bit.ly/2S7dQBN
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Keija Parssinen’s frank & intimate memoirs of her life in Saudi Arabia: An eye-opener on the vagaries of the US-Saudi relations
The US–Saudi Story, Through the Eyes of an Aramco ‘Brat’ nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31… via @nybooks
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This story reminds me of my own childhood in "the Magic Kingdom." #Saudi #ARAMCO see Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
The US–Saudi Story, Through the Eyes of an Aramco ‘Brat’ nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31… via @nybooks
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“The party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan is now slavishly loyal to a corrupt reality-TV host whose only demonstrable allegiances are to his own image and Vladimir Putin.”
By @Kasparov63 nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/28…
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This is a superb read. I'm no philosopher, and have no interest in becoming one. But I do think we have departed Normsland, and it's unlikely many norms (read: handshake agreements, actions subject to stigma) will return. nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31…
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"It now appears that both abuses of power will be sanctioned, with potentially crippling consequences for fighting corruption in America," via @AndreaWNYC
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"Wonderful" is too cuddly a word to use in connection with the Reichstagish events currently ongoing at the Federal level, but this connecting of a big crime to a small, absurd one is very helpful. nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31…
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Corruption with No Consequences, from Bridgegate to Impeachment nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31…
This week we spoke with novelist Keija Parssinen, about being an “Aramco brat,” the short, angry poems of her juvenilia, and the wannabe despot in the White House:
email.nybooks.com/t/y-0369FC… via @nybooks
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Similar schemes, similar lack of consequences. @AndreaWNYC on Bridgegate & Impeachment: nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31…
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The crown prince is not the visionary leader that he would like the world to see. He is a tyrant who has turned Saudi Arabia from a soft autocracy where mild dissent was somewhat tolerated into a police state.
By Keija Parssinen in @NYRDaily
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Article by Keija Parssinen: "The US–Saudi Story, Through the Eyes of an Aramco ‘Brat’" nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31… on NYR Daily
Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, Donald Trump—public officials right up to the Oval Office now have a waiver from both Congress and the Supreme Court to abuse their power for personal gain, writes @AndreaWNYC: nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31… via @nybooks
“For Trump the Hamilton lyric should be rewritten: ‘Everything is legal. If you’re president.’” So writes @AndreaWNYC, author of the new book ‘American Oligarchs’: nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31… via @nybooks
“That the highest executive in the land should never face consequences for his actions is the explicit position of the President Trump and his attorneys, public and private.” By @AndreaWNYC: nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31… via @nybooks