Zaid Jilani
Write about polarization for UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. Co-host of Extremely Offline, podcast about better conversations between political tribes
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Zaid Jilani
What will the GOP of the future look like? "Our nation does not exist to serve the interests of the market,” said one GOP senator recently. “The market exists to serve our nation and our people.”
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Answering Unresolved Questions About the Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and PrejudiceSocial Psychological and Personality Science - Mark J. Brandt, Jarret T. Crawford, 2016
Previous research finds that lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice. We test two unresolved questions about this association using a heterogeneous s
Don't Underestimate AOC's Possible Iowa Impact For Sanders
Of all the possible surrogate speakers out there for the 2020 Democrats, AOC has by far the most ability to make a difference on caucus night.
Zaid Jilani
Iowa Starting Line suggests that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an asset for Bernie Sanders in the state.
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In Lebanon, protests test young people’s hope to escape sectarianism
As the memory of the civil war fades, so does the threat of violence that kept previous generations from challenging the status quo
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Lebanon's young people are rejecting sectarianism when a bloody civil war where people slaughtered eachother along ethnic and religious lines is still in memory. So Americans should have at least as much courage to reject racial division.
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AARP executive claps back at viral "OK, Boomer" joke with a shot at millennials, says we "actually have the money"
AARP reportedly pulled in $142 million in 2017 from print advertisements in both magazines, as well as $32 million in digital advertising, according to Axios.
State Health Care Proposals Fall Short and Undermine Comprehensive Health Plans
Georgia's latest health care proposals meant to expand Medcaid eligibility and stabilize the individual health insurance market do not come close to fully addressing the state’s health care crisis.
FOX 8 Exclusive Gubernatorial Runoff Poll
The poll of 625 registered Louisiana voters shows Edwards with 48 percent of the vote while Rispone has 46 percent. Six percent say they are still undecided
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John Bel Edwards raised taxes and expanded Medicaid in a conservative southern state, while pursuing aggressive criminal justice reform, and will probably get re-elected
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CNN town hall with Joe Biden: Live updates
Joe Biden, former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, takes questions on a host of issues at CNN's town hall in Iowa. Follow here for the latest.
Occupation: A Film about the Harvard Living Wage Sit-In
The story of how students and workers came together to defeat the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere. Narrated by Ben Affleck. PLEASE NOTE: We are making…
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Zaid Jilani
Choose your fighter!
2019: Harvard student activists trying to punish the student newspaper for *asking a government agency for comment for a story*
2001: Harvard students occupy admin buildings for dozens of days to win living wages for workers
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In America’s Heartland, the Nazi Sympathizer Next Door
Tony Hovater, a 29-year-old welder, helped form a pro-Nazi group that marched in Charlottesville. Now he is hoping his ideas will go mainstream.
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@robbysoave @kittypurrzog NYT had significant internal blowback to this article from the usual cohort. My sense is if this is won, we'll essentially have the line between opinion and reporting eliminated. News reporting is based on persuading you to their point of view. Fin
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Addressing The Daily’s coverage of Sessions protests
Last week, The Daily was not the paper that Northwestern students deserve. On Nov. 5, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke on campus at a Northwestern University College Republicans event. The Daily sent a reporter to cover that talk and...
How to Fight Antisemitism
The forces fomenting antisemitism are the forces arrayed against oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians.
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Zaid Jilani
Bernie Sanders seems to argue here that attacks on Jews in New York City are the result of white supremacists. That isn't the case. His argument would be more credible if he admitted this hatred/resentment comes from many quarters
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Bernie Sanders calls gun buybacks 'unconstitutional' at rally: It's 'essentially confiscation'
Mandatory gun buybacks are unconstitutional and give the federal government broad, sweeping power to impose their will on law-abiding citizens, said 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday.
Zaid Jilani
Bernie Sanders opposes gun control policy which has zero chance of going through Congress anyway (mandatory buyback) which is probably politically smart.
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Undergraduate Council Votes to Support Act on a Dream Against The Crimson | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s UC voted to pass a statement at its meeting Sunday in support of immigration advocacy group Act on a Dream’s concerns about The Harvard Crimson’s news policies and made recommendations to make reporting policies more transparent.
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Zaid Jilani
Remember study I wrote about last year showing that fifty percent of writers and editors at the NYT and WSJ come from a small slice of elite colleges?
That's why stuff like Harvard students turning against request for comment matters. They control norms
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Bloomberg Expected to Seek Third Term as Mayor
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will propose a change in New York City’s term-limit laws to permit his third bid.
Zaid Jilani
Speaking of, the New York Times on when Bloomberg sought a third term... nytimes.com/2008/10/01/nyr… pic.twitter.com/iskVFxMzNy
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Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Steps Down
A leftist who had served longer than any other current head of state in Latin America, Mr. Morales lost his grip on power amid violent protests set off by a disputed election.
500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated
The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later.
The Show-Trial Rhetoric That Took Down a Charter-School Founder
A petition accusing Steven Wilson of “white supremacist” language makes no sense, and barely tries to.
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Zaid Jilani
I remember back when white supremacist meant like the Ku Klux Klan and not something I vaguely disagree with
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