Redux: Some Timeworn, Worm-Eaten Piece of Paper

The population that is most at risk includes journalists and activists who cross borders into hostile countries or who are targeted by police or security services.

And theres no guarantee that the liberal and leftist groups will make good use of the narrow opportunity they have been given.I saw some announce their intention to blame Green Party candidate Jill Stein for any poor showing by Clinton regardless of how well Stein might perform.

on what basis could they possibly criticize God-Emperor Trump?WORTHY OF SCORN BUT PERHAPS NOT BLAMEGeeksAs with Brexit.the whole umbrella of progressive causes the Democratic Party claims to represent has emerged weaker than ever from this election.As much as I relish the chance to rub salt in the gaping flesh wound Trump left across the belly of data journalism.

But absent proof of a massive illegal campaign to disenfranchise Democratic voters its hard to hang Clintons defeat on this.This might make more sense if Clinton was the only candidate under intense legal pressure—but the bevy of lawsuits and even criminal complaints Trump faced was arguably more daunting than the Justice Departments non-prosecution of Clinton.

But this result was predictable—except by sheltered white pundits who werent hip to the tensions between older and newer waves of immigrants.

a strong majority of the demographic group formerly known as Soccer Moms voted Trump despite his admitted tendency to grab them by the pussy.my fathers stacks of clutter multiplied until they overtook the space that my mother had so carefully cultivated; it crowded my sisters and me out.

I was certain that the images we had of our dead relatives were taken in caskets: a photographer pried open the deceaseds eyes and held them there with double-sided tape.Why should we mourn?Isnt this the history we wantone in which we survive?The first time I read her poems.

Why head down a hall of memories if it leads to a perpetual reminder of death? I felt as though Nguyen.which is to say that I pretended that trips to Stephs apartment in Rhode Island or Carolines in California were just a chance to visit another part of the country.