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Federer and Osaka

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This is a post about the contrast in the way two superstar tennis players were treated by the sport and the media after they each decided to withdraw from this year's French Open. First some background: The French Open is one of the sport's four major...
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Could NAFTA 2 Have Some Bite?

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Well this is certainly interesting: Every now and then, there is something new under the sun. This month, it’s a pro-worker trade policy—a first for the federal government in at least 40 years.This notable turn began on May 11, when the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and a Mexican...
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The Powell Show

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I'm a little behind on but really enjoying Noreen Malone's Slow Burn series on the Alice-in-Wonderland runup to the Iraq War. I'm especially looking forward to the most recent episode, which is about Colin Powell's disgraceful yet highly-praised-by-contemporaneous-media UN speech: Margaret Henoch was watching the speech...
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