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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. My wife, Deb, has written about the concept of “Big Little Ideas.” These...
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Listening to Joe Biden give his first official State of the Union address on Tuesday night, I thought: This is strong. It is clear; it’s the right message in the right language. It reflects the speaker...
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Life is unfair, as a Democratic president once put it. That was John F. Kennedy, at a press conference early in his term.Jimmy Carter did not go through as extreme a range of the blessings and...
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