Category: Politics
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You Can Thank Me Later
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I almost forgot I’d started a podcast called Backstory, inspired by heavy traffic to a book review published in 2015. At the time I recorded two more reviews and never got around to sharing. Here’s my new audio, with an updated show name: Backstory with Ben East.
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Jimmy Carter
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I met him in Accra when the Carter Center visited Ghana for an update on its Guinea Worm eradication program. He was humble, polite, and eager to hear from the embassy briefers.
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No Trust
Self-interest and party over country has sucked the prospect of moral authority from all political leanings.
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The Extra Hour
The extra hour fed the hungry, organized life, deepened my gloom over the state of our democracy, and gave our feathered friends an edge over squirrels ahead of winter.
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And They’re Off!
I headed down off the knoll and onto the course, tracking my son’s progress along fields of long-buried soldiers and lost, dud ordnance, gamely chasing a PR in the glory of his youth.
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Groundhog Day All Year
As I think of the potential substitutes, two women who bring Indian, African, and Jamaican descent into the picture, it occurs to me that American presidential campaigns have always been a sort of groundhog day event.
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