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The Un-American Essentialism of Donald Trump
You can dance around the question of whether Donald Trump’s “he’s a Mexican” criticism of federal judge Gonzalo Curiel, born in Indiana, is technically “racist.” There no such race as Mexican, after...
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Trump Time Capsule #16: Looking for an Off-Ramp?
Those were the days! At the debate at the Reagan library last September, with Donald Trump in his accustomed leader’s position in the middle and Lindsey Graham at the far left in this view. (Lucy...
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Is Trump Actually Looking for the Off-Ramp?
Waiting for the man last week, on the tarmac at Redding’s airport in California. (Stephen Lam / Reuters)As mentioned in the latest installments of the Time Capsule series, these past few days have been...
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‘The Last Best Hope for Public STEM Education in Mississippi’
Campus of the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, where MSMS is housed (Deborah Fallows).Over the years my wife Deb and I have frequently mentioned the remarkable Mississippi School for...
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Trump Time Capsule #17: ‘30 Ways He Is Committing Political Suicide’
Republican Senator Mark Kirk, in a difficult race for re-election to the seat Barack Obama once held in Illinois, announcing today that he was withdrawing his support for Trump.#17, June 7, 2016. ‘30...
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The Sad Decline of Craftsmanship Among Spammers, an Ongoing Series
Sigh, kids these days.Nothing says convincing SEO expertise like — well, like every little touch here:“Due to some reasons” and other insights.Come on, guys, show some pride!(And before you ask, No, I...
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Post-California Updates: Trump Security, Progressive Strategy, What ‘He's a...
Three updates on the morning after Hillary Clinton clinched the nomination and Donald Trump delivered a subdued-sounding from-the-prompter speech.1) Journalists vs. Trump security. Over the weekend I...
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‘Mr. China’ on Making Things in America
Latest cohort of Highway 1 fellows — hardware entrepreneurs at Liam Casey’s startup center in San Francisco.Following this earlier post about the significance of the Maker Movement, and before an...
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Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 2, Agility
In the first entry in this series, I discussed why the Maker Movement, sometimes dismissed as quaint and cutesy by people not familiar with it, should in fact be taken seriously as the source and...
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The Maker Revolution: What It Has Changed, and What It Hasn't — Yet
Americans don’t make things any more? Tell it to (from left) First Joe, Pauly, and Capt. Jerry, who are building the Mon Tiki Largo on Montauk, Long Island. You can’t make a 100-foot boat with 3-D...
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‘Like the Logbook Entries of a Doomed Sailor Stranded at Sea’
Franklin D. Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933, with the famous line “the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” A reader, 23 years old, wonders how today’s fears compare with those of other...
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‘Mr. China’ on Making Things in America
Latest cohort of Highway 1 fellows — hardware entrepreneurs at Liam Casey’s startup center in San Francisco.Following this earlier post about the significance of the Maker Movement, and before an...
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The Maker Revolution: What It Has Changed, and What It Hasn't — Yet
Americans don’t make things any more? Tell it to (from left) First Joe, Pauly, and Capt. Jerry, who are building the Mon Tiki Largo on Montauk, Long Island. You can’t make a 100-foot boat with 3-D...
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The Surprising Problem With U.S. Manufacturing: It's Creating Too Many Jobs
9th grade student Franke Le, left, telling other students about the advanced manufacturing equipment on which he had already received a special-proficiency certificate, at Indian Springs High School in...
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Trump Time Capsule #18: From ‘Pocahontas’ to ‘the Fat Jap’
Pocahontas (D-Ma.) WikimediaI’ve been off-duty on other fronts for a couple of days — largely on the far-more-encouraging Maker Movement /...
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Trump Time Capsule #19, 'Appreciate the Congrats'
Afghan refugees from the Soviet invasion in the early 1980s, when President Reagan was welcoming them to the United States. (AP Photo)Without comment, the online responses of the presumptive Republican...
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Is a 'Trump Time Capsule' Too Fatalistic?
Puffing a pipe rather than fighting the world’s fight. (“Raleigh’s First Pipe,” Wikipedia.)A reader objects to the concept of the Trump Time Capsule series:Thank you for your thorough documentation of...
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Trump Time Capsule #20: 'It's War, It's Absolute War'
I made the mistake of watching, live, Donald Trump’s phone-in interview with a highly deferential Fox and Friends crew early this morning. If you have the stomach, you can watch it below. This was the...
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'They Did Not Know How Things Would Turn Out'
We know now how the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 turned out, and that they were the beginning of the end for the Red-baiting career of Senator Joe McCarthy. Neither McCarthy (right) nor his nemesis...
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Trump Time Capsule #21: 'Pull Their Credentials'
President John F. Kennedy at a press conference, around the time he was getting annoyed by coverage from the NY Herald Tribune. (WIkipedia)Nothing like this has happened before in modern times.Trump...
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