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- Where Have All the Liberals Gone? https://www.racket.news/p/where-have-all-the-liberals-gone 4 comments
- Joe Manchin Has Wrecked the Biden Presidency—Perhaps He’ll Also Liberate It | The need to appease the West Virginia senator is gone now, and not just on the climate. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-manchin-has-wrecked-the-biden-presidency-perhaps-hell-also-liberate-it 81 comments politics
- Silicon Valley has gone from liberating to creepy. Next stop, government regulation. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/26/silicon-valley-facebook-cambridge-analytics-regulation/456941002/ 4 comments politics
- In France, Some Say #MeToo Has Gone Too Far. Actress Catherine Deneuve sparks a fight with a letter arguing the campaign against sexual harassment undermines sexual liberation https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-france-some-say-metoo-has-gone-too-far-1515610419 2 comments worldevents
- [NP] "We made a mistake by trusting you. 15 to 20 years have gone by and you have not fulfilled your promise of liberating Kashmir... you could not liberate Kashmir for us." -- Pakistan Army Official to Taliban Scholar (radio debate) (Quoted bit after 1:06:00 but listen to it all) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TD8PA4IZao 7 comments india
- Is Mitch McConnell the Worst Senate Minority Leader? ' If I were a conservative interested in conservative policy outcomes—and not just blind rage against liberals—I’d want McConnell gone.' http://prospect.org/article/mitch-mcconnell-worst 6 comments politics
- Is Rush Limbaugh’s Country Gone? 'A plurality (49-43) of young people hold a favorable view of socialism. Liberal Democrats by a solid 59-33; and African Americans, 55-36. Hispanics are modestly opposed, 49-44, to socialism, but they hold decisively negative attitudes toward capitalism, 55-32.' http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/is-rush-limbaughs-country-gone/ 461 comments politics
- Poland plans to tear down hundreds of Soviet memorials: Since 1989, Poles have removed hundreds of memorials erected after World War II thanking the Red Army for liberating Poland from the Nazis. But around 200 memorials still remain. Now, the government wants them gone http://www.dw.com/en/poland-plans-to-tear-down-hundreds-of-soviet-memorials/a-19185159 25 comments worldnews
- I’ve Gone And Done It Now --- Egyptian Muslim discards hijab while on trip to Europe. "I wanted to know what it would feel like. I wanted to know how people’s perceptions of me would change." Turned out to be fun, liberating. But not yet ready to try at home http://nadiaelawady.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/ive-gone-and-done-it-now-what-its-like-without-the-muslim-headscarf/ 442 comments worldnews
- Peshmerga - and other Kurdish forces - liberated 9,300 square miles of their territory from ISIS but have no will to advance much further into Sunni Arab areas. “Why should we shed Kurdish blood for Hawija when we know the Iraqi government will claim it back once the IS threat is gone?” http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/iraq-kurdistan-peshmerga-wait-islamic-state.html 427 comments worldnews
- Kirsten Gillibrand's Improbable Path to Liberal Stardom: New York's junior senator has gone from a rural populist to the next Hillary Clinton—with White House ambitions to match. How did it happen? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/kirsten-gillibrands-improbable-path-to-liberal-stardom/280872/ 9 comments politics