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Literary,
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Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
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Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
"I am not willing to go public yet but I will say this: I don't know if I would be this worried about what will happen to the economy if Bernie fucking Sanders were president," one big Trump and Republican Party donor says. "That's how bad this is, and there's very little time to fix the situation and turn the ship around."
Guy who didn't want to be quoted by name in Rolling Stone
THE LEDE
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Lawrence Osborne, MG Vassanji, Elizabeth Evans, Baba Badji
Lawrence Osborne For several years Hilal ran a boat hire out of Qantab beach, taking rich...M.G. Vassanji It was January 1972. Pakistan had recently, only the previous month, lost a...Elizabeth Evans The following extracts come from the novel DANIEL ELLSBERG’S PSYCHIATRIST by...Baba Badji Chapter Eleven : Aunty Salymata After years, I finally found the courage to go...MORE FICTION
TRUTH SPEAKS LOUDER THAN FACTS
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