Let's Make October 'Think Outside Your Tribe' Month
With the 2022 midterm elections fast approaching, we have an October challenge to all Americans: Think outside your tribe, at least a little, this month.
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We'd like to offer you some "think outside your tribe" pairings, taken from our daily curated content this month.
Today's Pairing
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“We the People” don’t agree on much these days, except for the fact that America’s culture and politics are dangerously divided. Each side sees the other as occupying a bizarro, inverted intellectual, moral, and political universe. Even scarier—each side sees the other as a threat to democracy...
Although there’s no easy fix, let’s make the month of October the time of year when we all dine outside—and cheat on—our curated smorgasbord of cable, print, podcaster, and Twitterati diet. (Read more.)
More "Think Outside Your Tribe" pairings from this month.
Oct 28
Elon Musk Owns Twitter. Now what? Shirin Ghaffary, Vox
How Elon Musk Should Manage Twitter Going Forward Paul Ingrassia, the American Mind
Oct 27
BlackRock Conflates and Confuses In 'Setting Record Straight' On Energy Boycotts Scott Shepard, RealClearMarkets
Why the ESG v. GOP war over energy and climate change is going nowhere Tim Mullaney, CNBC
Oct 26
Right-Wing Election Denier May Flip Dem AL Stronghold Molly Olmstead, Slate
Hillary Is the Queen of Election Denial Stephen L. Miller, Spectator World
Oct 25
Adults Failed the Children of the Pandemic Editors, National Review
Dems See Opening to Neutralize GOP Ed Messaging Perez & Montellaro, Politico
Oct 24
Democrats Must Address Economic Fears Now Robert Reich, The Guardian
Left's Failed Policies Have U.S. Headed for Deep Recession, Larry Kudlow, FOX
Oct 21
One Poll Can't Show That the "Dobbs Effect" is Gone Joan Walsh, The Nation
Democrats focus on the overturning of Roe not driving voters David Keene, Washington Times
Oct 20
Putin's War Accelerates the EU's Fossil Fuel Detox Karl Mathiesen, et al., Politico
No, Politico Europe, Vladimir Putin Is Not Making Europe "Green" Robert Bryce, RC Energy
Oct 19
GOP Women Actively Seek to Diminish Women's Rights Marisa Kabas, MSNBC
GOP Playing Offense on Abortion – and Winning Katie Pavlich, The Hill
Oct 18
How the Border Went MAGA Kyle Paoletta, Intelligencer
Illegal Immigration -- Americans Are Seething Robert B. Charles, AMAC
Oct 17
Democrats Need to Make Jan 6 Attack an Election Issue John Nichols, The Nation
Obama is Right: Anti-Trump Fixation is Killing Democrats David Freddoso, Examiner
Oct 14
Why Is High Inflation Proving So Persistent? John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Inflation's Gut Punch to Democrats' Election Hopes Hugo Gurdon, Examiner
Oct 13
Ben Bernanke Led the Fed Amid the Worst of Crises Smialek, NY Times
Sorry Nobel Committee, Bernanke Interventions Were the Crisis Tamny, RCM
Oct 12
Spread of Catholic Hospitals Limits Reproductive Care Francis Sellers, et al., WaPo
Washington Post Joins War on Religious Institutions Tim Carney, Examiner
Oct 11
Stewart Shows How to Interview Anti-Trans Politicians Katelyn Burns, MSNBC
Woke Medicine Wants More Mutilated Kids Ben Weingarten, Newsweek
Oct 10
Elon Musk Can't Fix Twitter, Because No One Can Peter Kafka, Recode
Can Elon Musk Defeat Censorship Culture? I Hope So Jonathan Turley, USA Today
Oct 7
Banning Affirmative Action Makes Selective Colleges Less Diverse The Conversation, Natasha Warikoo
Affirmative Action Helps Black Immigrants, But Not Black Americans RealClearEducation, Robert Cherry
Oct 6
Europe's War on the Woke James Mcauley, The Nation
Wokeness Claims a Museum Peter Van Buren, The Spectator
Oct 5
Joe Biden’s Energy Crisis Rupert Darwall, RealClearEnergy
Anti-Anti-ESG Strikes Back Kahn et al., Politico
Oct 4
Will the Supreme Court Go Further to the Right? Ilya Shapiro, City Journal
The Supreme Court Isn't Listening, and It's No Secret Why Editorial Board, NYT
