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ESCAPE THE HATE

1 digg Washington Post
Years before Donald Trump launched a presidential campaign based on the politics of race and division, a group of avowed white nationalists was making his rise possible by pushing its ideology from the radical fringes ever closer to the far conservative right. And their superstar leader was supposed to be a 19-year-old from Florida.
SCHOOL'S IN FOREVER

15 diggs The Guardian
Chinese children must endure years of stress and impossible expectations preparing for their final school exam. The students who do best can look forward to glittering careers and even good marriage prospects. But for the less successful, the system is brutal.
DRESSING UP THE STRIP MALL

4 diggs tedium.co
After the 2008 recession, commercial real estate firms had a ton of empty buildings. Fortunately, Halloween stores were ready to fill the gap — for a month.
WE'RE SHOWERS, NOT GROWERS

4 diggs wsj.com
Whoever sits in the Oval Office next year will swiftly find that faster productivity growth — the key to faster economic growth — isn’t something a president can decree. It might be wiser to accept the truth: The US economy isn’t behaving badly. It is just being ordinary.
A CULTURE OF DISBBELIEF

12 diggs Vox
Tom Tremblay has spent decades advocating for the prevention of sexual assault and domestic violence, first as a police officer in Vermont and now as a consultant. He gives his insight on why women don't come forward about sexual assault.
NO, YOU DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW RUSSIAN

10 diggs BBC
Hungarians call jeans farmer pants and the Japanese ofisuredii ("office lady") describes a female desk worker. A comment on a blog or a website is called a tokbek ("talk back") in Hebrew. Skateboarding and frisbee are Funsports in German.

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