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February 9, 2016
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Richard North Patterson
Novelist and contributing opinion writer
Breathlessly, Republicans await the outcome of today's New Hampshire primary. In times past, New Hampshire was, variously, a check on Iowa, a force for moderation, a safe haven for front runners, a boon to long shots, and quicksand for the presumably anointed. In this unconventional year, it will likely alter the trajectory of the presumptive leaders -- not least because of Marco Rubio's Saturday night train wreck -- as well as of those in the second tier, muddling the contest for "mainstream" candidate while winnowing the brace of also-rans. But that death knell we are hearing is not just the mercy killing of walking footnotes like Carly Fiorina. It is for the GOP establishment and, more profoundly, for the very idea of what a president should be.
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Bernie Sanders Smiling Bloomberg via Getty Images
Yes, some 50 percent of voters say they wouldn't vote for a socialist; but a lot of those are people who haven't thought about the word since the 1970s. We should take this profession of hostility less seriously.
Jedediah Purdy
Professor, Duke Law School; Author, 'A Tolerable Anarchy'
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Clinton Albright Justin Sullivan via Getty Images
Clinton still has a gap to traverse to lock in votes this primary season. She's already made significant changes to her campaign to change course and not repeat 2008. But schooling young women on what it means to be a feminist isn't going to win any votes.
Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani
Host/Producer, HuffPost Live
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Syria Child Refugee ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON -- Humanity is everybody's business, and an education is everybody's right. So it shouldn't fall only to governments and international agencies to provide aid during a crisis. Inside the humanitarian tent we need charities, philanthropists, businesses and social enterprises all working together.
Gordon Brown
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; UN Special Envoy for Global Education
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Immigration Nancy Lisandra Cepero Dominico
Coming from a small place we had a certain trust for the police and other authority figures. This was one of the things we had to learn when we came to the U.S. Seeking out the police for safety led to our family being detained and being sent to Miami Dade detention facility.
Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye
Staff member with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration
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My country is placing me in a position where I become a hurricane blazing through everything in my path. Just one month passed by and dozens of people lost their jobs, were told off by their bosses, got reported on. Now they are all unemployed.
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Activist, Pussy Riot band member
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Ali Forney Center Ali Forney Center
I cared about Ali Forney very much, and his murder devastated me. I cannot envision a greater triumph, a greater sense of closure, than to be able to provide our youths a beautiful home 50 yards from the site of Ali's last lonely space on this earth.
Carl Siciliano
Executive Director, Ali Forney Center
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Hillary Clinton The Washington Post via Getty Images
To vote for her in the primaries, I would need to believe that the establishment on both the right and the left have so thoroughly strangled the political system that it is no longer "reasonable" to even try for reform.
Robyn Morton
A woman who lifts heavy things up and put them back down
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Guns Caroline Purser via Getty Images
What's the best way to thank Afghans who have risked their lives helping U.S. troops? Offer them a chance to live in America, and then make the process impossible and the costs astronomical.
Tamar Halpern
Writer/director
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Jessica Bolanos Courtesy of Jessica Bolanos
There are so many levels to Formation that those of us who felt it, really feel it. There really isn't (that) much to joke about. Or waste time hating on.
Jessica Bolanos
Director of Digital Media at Goodspero
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Hillary Bernie ASSOCIATED PRESS
Our democracy is strongest when everyone is able to participate, and it is time to fulfill that promise to the American people. The people should be selecting their leaders, not the other way around.
Rep. Mark Pocan
First Vice Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus; U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 2nd District
Rep. Keith Ellison
Co-chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus; U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th District
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Valentines Day istetiana via Getty Images
Each year, I vie to redefine the popular conception of Valentine's Day. It is, in so many ways, unpopular. This shows with the professing of arbitrary, expensive romance and the nickname "Single's Awareness Day." But to keep this holiday as a purely romantic holiday is short-sighted, while its potential is so vast.
Nika Harper
Writer? Check.Geek? You bet.Dinosaur? Still in discussion with scientists
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Bernie Sanders ASSOCIATED PRESS
I think that the Sanders campaign might represent a positive shift for the discussion of certain topics within the Democratic Party. However, for all the positive things his campaign represents, it also represents something deeply problematic: a fetishization of not knowing.
Daniel Kushner
PhD Candidate in Political Science at Brown University
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Flint The Washington Post via Getty Images
The citizens of Flint deserve much more than a steady convoy of trucks carrying privately donated bottled water. They deserve a full-fledged humanitarian military deployment, and a steady convoy of trucks carrying the equipment needed to repair their broken infrastructure and homes.
Johnny L. Ricks
Thinker, writer and speaker.
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Bernie Sanders The Washington Post via Getty Images
The thing is, the average voter -- the one who's going to trudge through a half-foot of snow on Tuesday and decide the New Hampshire primary -- doesn't care all that much about North Korea and its missile launches. What he or she really cares about is a system that is rigged against them.
Will Bunch
Author, 'The Bern Identity'
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Flint Water ASSOCIATED PRESS
The price tag for replacing the lead pipes that contaminated its drinking water is now estimated at up to $1.5 billion. No one knows where that money will come from or when it will arrive. In the meantime, the cost to the children of Flint has been and will be incalculable.
David Rosner
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Public Health, Columbia University
Gerald Markowitz
Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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David Hearst Courtesy of David Hearst
Kerry has come dangerously close to seeing the Syrian conflict as a binary fight between two forms of ruthless dictatorship -- Assad and the Islamic State group. This is exactly how Assad frames the conflict, and it is one of the main reasons why ISIS is growing in strength.
David Hearst
Editor, Middle East Eye
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Hillary Clinton Director Shutterstock
Secretary Hillary Clinton has accepted millions in "speaking fees" and campaign contributions from interest groups - most notably Wall Street firms - that she will be in a position to help or hurt as president. She promises that the money will not influence her if she takes office, but voters are understandably skeptical.
Dave Johnson
Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
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Puerto Rico Economy ASSOCIATED PRESS
Although Puerto Rico's 3.5 million residents are Americans, they are not represented by voting members of Congress, helping to often make them afterthoughts in congressional debates. But the island's problems are neither small nor remote.
Nicholas Johnson
Vice President for State Fiscal Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Trump DON EMMERT via Getty Images
Trump is destined to disappear from this Kafkaesque nightmare that has captivated media coverage over the past half year or so -- and the sooner the better. Donald Trump will lose in New Hampshire and America will benefit.
Lance Simmens
Author, The Evolution of a Revolution, and Fracktured (March, 2016)
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Chris Fore Chris Fore
Parents, your kids will be fine if they don't start -- as long as you're fine! For the first time my son didn't start today, and I couldn't have been prouder. He was the only one on the bench standing and cheering for his teammates.
Chris Fore
Special Education Teacher, Varsity Football Coach, Consultant
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As the Democratic presidential race heats up, the debate on financial reform has taken a bizarre twist. Somehow the measure of a good reform is its ability to prevent another 2008-type financial crisis.
Dean Baker
Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'
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Cosby ASSOCIATED PRESS
The reason some people are above the law is because of advice like Nussbaum's. She doubts people will stand up to power and tells survivors that seeking justice is futile. Nussbaum is wrong. Some people will stand up -- sometimes at great personal cost -- and survivors can find justice.
Michele Beaulieux
Smile Collector. Cyclist. Survivor.
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Bernie Sanders Bloomberg via Getty Images
It is time once again to peer deeply into my somewhat-foggy crystal ball, and attempt to pick the winners of tomorrow night's New Hampshire primary. Before I get to that, though, some old business needs to be brought up. First, we have some very recent old business and then some truly ancient business, so bear with me.
Chris Weigant
Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com
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Wedding Roberto Westbrook via Getty Images
Three months ago, my then-boyfriend, Craig, got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I cried with excitement. After all, it was a huge moment in my life that was exceptionally exciting, special and celebration-worthy. But is it an accomplishment? No.
Natalie Brooke
Natalie Brooke, an Atlanta native, is the Vice President of Client Relationships for Resurgent Performance, a community bank advisory group
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Mom Daughter Arm Black Jose Luis Pelaez Inc via Getty Images
Words can do incredible damage, but they can't hold a candle to silence. Often it is those words that have been withheld which leave the greatest scars upon us. It is in that terrible absence that we are dealt the harshest blow by those who claim to love us.
John Pavlovitz
Pastor and Writer
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Nyc Crane Steve Sands via Getty Images
Drunk drivers, earthquakes, cancer, shooters -- and now cranes. It's rattling to be reminded how vulnerable we are. We busy our lives to distract ourselves from mortality, to extract meaning from absurdity, to pretend we control a cosmos of chance. At best, what I get from Worth Street is the gong of mindfulness. Savor the moment. Hug your children. Don't go back to sleep. At worst: Grow up. It's all hanging by a thread.
Marty Kaplan
USC Annenberg professor and Norman Lear Center director
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Bernie Sanders ASSOCIATED PRESS
If you think that we need a leader who will push to change the way we see the world then it makes perfect sense to imagine Bernie as the realistic candidate, the one who will get things done.
Bill McKibben
Author of a dozen books, including 'The End of Nature' and 'Deep Economy'
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Black Students Getty Images
If you haven't talked to your child's teacher about what their lesson plans are for Black History Month (or for any subject), I encourage you to do so.The burden of education isn't solely on the teachers. It's my responsibility, as well. There are many opportunities available for what your children learn. You just have to ask.
Thomasina Guidry
Writer and blogger
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We're already seeing a transition to clean, renewable energy and away from fossil fuels. President Obama knows that the only way to build on the progress and promise of the Paris climate summit is to accelerate that transition and base our fossil fuel policy on the mandate to "keep it in the ground" whenever and wherever possible.
Michael Brune
Executive Director, The Sierra Club
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Woman Thinking Marga Frontera via Getty Images
You don't need more motivation. You don't need to be inspired to action. You don't need to read any more lists and posts about how you're not doing enough. There's a magic beyond us that works in ways we can't understand.
Jamie Varon
Writer based in Los Angeles
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