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Visitors at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.(Jason Reed/Reuters) And theres a reason we fight over it.There is no marriage as stable and enduring as that of ignorance and certitude. Years ago, I knew some crunchy progressives of the particularly nasty kind they cultivate in the few remaining blueblood enclaves of the old WASP Main Line. There is something about the combination of genuine privilege, Quaker moralism, and macrobiotic diet that makes these particular partisans of peace and tolerance the most vicious and intolerant of their kind but far from the brightest, as in the case of the woman who sniffed that she could hardly endure trips to visit her husbands family in the South because she was physically nauseated just by being present in a place that had once seen slavery. ...
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It's been more than six year since fans said goodbye to Walter White in the hit series Breaking Bad, but now it seems the drug lord's on-screen son wants to return to carry on his father's legacy. Actor RJ Mitte, who played Walter Jr., has revealed that he has already spoken to Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan about the possibility of a new spin-off, with him taking the lead. Speaking to The Sun, the 27-year-old - who, like his character, has cerebal palsy - said he thinks the issues Walter Jr had to go through in the show would make for a gripping series. He said: "He is his father's son in a way of his actions and his moralities of what he's going to do would be right for his family. "I think for us it would be a very hard life after what Heisenberg did to his family and I think t...
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This is an intimate portrait of what addiction looks like in America. From the board rooms of pharmaceutical companies to the living rooms across America, Beth Macy traces the path of devastation wrought by opioids. Her latest book, Dopesick gives life to the urgency of the epidemic, illustrating just how woefully insufficient the national response has been to the scale of the crisis. She lays out the often-insurmountable barriers that stand between someone suffering and the treatment they need, and why stigma may be the biggest obstacle of them all. CHRIS HAYES: The story here is really... the most cartoonish version also seems not that far from being the accurate one, which is big, pharmaceutical interests essentially corruptly rigged a system to jack up their profits by essentially d...
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