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“Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.”

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Trump is reviled around the world.

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What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

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If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.

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In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused on things…

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To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

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Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary…

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Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified after his…

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Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House…

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Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile…

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Bill Clinton had a hell of a first 24 months, even though he, like Trump, enjoyed a congressional majority. Scandal after scandal befell the…

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Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas.

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The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal…

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We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

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The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will…

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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

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The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran…

Cynthia P. Schneider

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“It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.”

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When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about…

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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

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While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But…

Michael Huffington

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K-pop itself is not just a music genre, but a whole cultural phenomenon.

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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

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“So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place I'd never…

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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a…

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