Resending this entire post from Open Society Foundations, because it is worth resending. Click the links to go on. The original was posted in 2011. It´s been a while. Here is the link to the quotes below. And here is the link to Open Society Foundations homesite. And for the sake of information — founder of this website and organization: George Soros. Populist parties and movements are now a force to be
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The fall of great men
Around the world, an agenda-setting attention is focused on the abuse of power by men in position to treat women unfairly: Code word is sexual harassment. One of the latest installments in the unfolding story is the fall of both Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, veterans of the US TV and talk show eco system. Watch this video from the New York Times.
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Disrupted: The politics of belonging David Brooks, in the New York Times this morning – October 31st, 2018: “What you see is good people desperately trying to connect in an America where bonds are attenuated — without stable families, tight communities, stable careers, ethnic roots or an enveloping moral culture. There’s just a whirl of changing stepfathers, changing homes, changing phone distractions, changing pop-culture references, financial stress and chronic drinking,
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