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  Gabriella Schwarz

  

  The State of the Union Is Missing

  The Wall Street Journal. - Peggy Noonan

  Donald Trump ’s signature, which he enjoys displaying after signing bills and executive orders, is unusually big, sharp and jagged. It’s like the lines a seismograph makes during an earthquake, or what a polygraph shows when you’re telling a whopper. Lately it has looked bigger and sharper. He’s in a …

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  Gabriella Schwarz

  

  What’s Lust Got to Do With It?

  The New York Times - MAUREEN DOWD

  WASHINGTON — I’ve noticed a weird pattern, in fiction and life, about sexual encounters: Women decide they’re not attracted to a guy they’re nestling with. Limerence is not in the cards. But they go ahead and have sex anyhow. First, we have college student Margot in The New Yorker’s much-discussed …

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  Gabriella Schwarz

  

  

  If Adults Won’t Grow Up, Nobody Will

  The Wall Street Journal. - Peggy Noonan

  I want to write about something I think is a problem in our society, that is in fact at the heart of many of our recent scandals, and yet is obscure enough that it doesn’t have a name. It has to do with forgetting who you are. It has to do with refusing to be fully adult and neglecting to take on, …

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  Gabriella Schwarz

  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/opinion/center-democrats-identity-politics.html

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  Gabriella Schwarz

  

  Begala: 'Dump Pelosi' plays right into GOP's hands

  CNN - By Paul Begala

  (CNN) — Democrats lost a special election for a congressional seat they have not held in decades, so some are calling for the head of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Huh? Dumping Pelosi, who has devoted her professional life to Democratic values, would be like throwing the captain of your ship …

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  Gabriella Schwarz

  

  Memo to Democrats after special-election losses: Find better candidates

  USA TODAY - Ross K. Baker

  Government experience may not matter for presidential candidates, but voters like it in contenders for Congress. Fault-finding by Democrats has been in abundance since Republicans swept all four of this year's special elections to fill vacant House seats. Georgia's 6th Congressional District, which …