Week of January 6, 2014
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#1 New York Times Room for Debate: Turning Away From Painful Chapters What happens when we ignore ugly truths about the past -- when families bury their dark secrets, and nations try to forget their sins? NEW YORK TIMES |
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#2 Why Presidents Stopped Talking About Poverty LBJ was the last president to talk about poverty in a substantive way. THE NEW YORKER |
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LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty How to measure whether or not the "war on poverty" worked. THE NEW REPUBLIC |
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#4 The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published in 1929 How José Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses helps us understand everything from YouTube to Duck Dynasty. THE DAILY BEAST |
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America's Real Problem: Too Much Bipartisanship Consensus views encapsulate what's really wrong in Washington. CNN |
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Bitcoin Is a High-Tech Dinosaur Soon to Be Extinct Sorry, but Bitcoin isn’t the future. BLOOMBERG |
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#7 1914 All Over Again? There are parallels between 1914 and 2014, but the differences are far more important. DEUTSCHE WELLE |
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#8 Changes in the Pacific Is China copying old imperial Japan? NATIONAL REVIEW |
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#9 Facing 2014 with Trepidation The last time '13 turned into '14, it didn't work out too well. THE NEW YORKER |
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#10 Blame Football, Not Title IX Colleges are cutting other sports -- and wrongly blaming the 1972 measure that outlawed sex discrimination in educational institutions receiving federal financial aid. LOS ANGELES TIMES |