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Spain-Argentina Game Thread

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"Los argentinos son mas arrogantes que los chilenos" was a correct answer in my Spanish class in Santiago on Friday. Everyone in Latin America hates Argentina. In fact, most everyone hates Argentina period. I was in Colombia once, in a van taking people people from Cartagena...

Comida Chatarra

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It's almost impossible for me to say anything good about the United States during the Trump years. It's a terrible country filled with terrible humans. I'm very much an American,.

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The Price Appalachia Paid

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We're still calculating the ways in which the opioid epidemic hit Appalachia: The local effects of this decline are well known. “Population losses erode local tax bases, strain the provision of public goods, and generate fiscal pressures that are difficult to reverse, particularly in areas with...
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Alas for them, Trump cannot pardon them for crimes committed in other countries, and I don't think even Labour would sink to Jared Polis: Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most...
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Making America Weak and Stupid

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Screenshot of a page from the Reagan Library Website: https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/quotes/since-this-is-the-last-speech-that-i-will-give-as-president-i-think-it-s-fitting My apologies if someone else has already written about the new rules for student visas, but they're bad enough that it's probably worth a second pass. Since 1978, foreign students have been admitted into the U.S....

Week 78

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President Trump teased his big prime-time speech for several days before Thursday. There were a number of anticipations to it, including a rather good rundown of what he might say.

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