Could the Broadway hit help foster Mideast peace? Most likely, not. But no one can question the two politicians’ sincere interest. Clinton’s seen it three times, she said according to one of the call’s participants. And on Sunday — the same day Netanyahu met separate...
Clinton and Netanyahu share a common cause: love of the musical ‘Hamilton’ - The Washington Post
... Friends’ parents, FBI, CIA. None understood our family AOL handle (forensic accounting inside joke). Grandfather Navy and Raytheon, not far from RCA’s Nipper sculpture (dog, gramophone). Uncle played Intellivision, materials at MIT. Mitre. IIT, Tsinghua. SAIC. Booz Allen, Northrop Grumman. One tested me on vocab in the paper library. Public Ivy; sister, Ivy. Their mom taught me to hunt and peck on Apple IIe.
Maureen Miller
George Plimpton, the founder of the Paris Review, Intellivision spokesperson, and general enigma, is one of my idols. Most of my “art” is based on his “participatory journalism,” except I can’t play sports well enough to do the really weird stuff. When a company did a parody ad with John Hodgman around 2007, I hung it up in my locker at the school where I taught. Then a kid ripped a hole in the locker trying to get some lollipops. He did not damage the poster.
Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders – he never had a chance. But his supporters will join our movement, bec...
Donald Trump’s prepared speech to the Republican National convention, annotated - The Washington Post
... tape, they’ve got a tape,” Clinton told aides.) According to the Huffington Post, Blumenthal also raised questions about Barack Obama’s relationship with former Weather Underground militant William Ayres, and with controversial Chicago developer Tony Rezko. One Blumenthal e-mail to opinion-makers derided Obama’s “fabled ‘judgement’ ” and wondered how he would “conduct himself in those promised summi...
The Hillary Confidant You Can’t Escape | Vanity Fair
...ld have come as no surprise to Blumenthal. He is a true believer in the “vast right-wing conspiracy” that Hillary Clinton once spoke of. The juggling act that he has tried to pull off is complicated: on the one hand, an ink-stained philosopher, like Seneca, bringing wisdom to the halls of power; on the other, a practitioner of the down-and-dirty politics he observed growing up in Chicago during the autocratic Democratic heyday of Mayor Richard J. Daley.
The Hillary Confidant You Can’t Escape | Vanity Fair
...t “Sid Vicious.” He dresses sharply in starched collars and in suits that display a British flair. At age 67, he maintains his preternaturally dark hair in a boyish flop. An unreconstructed liberal of Third Way bent, he is cerebral and combative – traits at the heart of a distinct image that has only grown more prominent in recent years with profiles in The New York Times, Vox, and elsewhere. At times heed...
The Hillary Confidant You Can’t Escape | Vanity Fair
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