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Franklin: Élisabeth Gille’s Devastating Account of her Mother, Irène Némirovsky | New Republic

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Élisabeth Gille’s Devastating Account of her Mother, Irène Némirovsky. September 21, 2011. I have never before come upon a book at once as loving and as devastating as The Mirador. By Élisabeth Gille, the daughter of Irène Némirovsky. Némirovsky, it will be remembered, is the popular French-Jewish society novelist of the interwar era who came to attention in the United States and elsewhere after the discovery of Suite Française. Her first novel, published to a great sensation when she was only twenty-six...

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Climate Change Denier James Inhofe to Lead Environment Committee | New Republic

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Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images. Congratulations, Voters. You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment. November 5, 2014. In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans. In 2003 that global warming might help humanity. In that same speech, he argued that an international body of climate change scientists resembled a Soviet-style trial, in which the facts are predetermined, and ideological purity trumps tec...

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Hagan Defeats Tillis: North Carolina Is Most Competitive State in U.S. | New Republic

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Tuesday's Election Proved That North Carolina Is the Nation's Most Competitive State. But Just Wait Until 2016. November 5, 2014. On Election Day 2012, Kay Hagan became the most vulnerable U.S. senator in the country. While Democrats elsewhere were celebrating Barack Obama's re-election, in North Carolina they took a beating. Republicans gained control of the governor's mansion for the first time in 20 years, and Mitt Romney edged out. Until the final days of a year-long campaign. But 2014 might have bee...

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'Good2Go' Sex-Consent iPhone App Won't Solve Campus Rape | New Republic

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There's Not An App for That: Smartphones Won't Solve Campus Rape. September 30, 2014. Over the past several months, increased attention to sexual assault has resulted in a variety of proposed solutions. On Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the first affirmative consent bill. To make consent "sexy" and "fun" with cringeworthy suggestions, like these lines provided by the University of Wyoming: I’ve got the ship. You’ve got the harbor. Can I dock for the night? Of the lengthy process but Good2...

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The Great Escape Review: Do Foreign-Aid Donations Make Things Worse? | New Republic

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What If Your Humanitarian Donations Are Making Things Worse? Martha C. Nussbaum. October 8, 2014. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. By Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press). Is to tell a twofold story: the escape of many from what we now see as premature deaths, and the persistent inequalities, both within and between nations, that prevent this happy escape from being a reality for many of the world’s people. Contains no detailed analysis of the concept of human welfare...

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Shiloh Pitt-Jolie Shows How Leelah Alcorn's Suicide Was Preventable | New Republic

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Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images. Parents of Transgender Kids Could Learn a Lot from Brangelina. January 27, 2015. Last month, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender 17-year-old, committed suicide by putting herself in the path of a tractor-trailer on an Ohio highway. In a Tumblr post scheduled to publish after her death, she wrote. Refusal to accept her for who she was. Stories. About the Alcorns referred to their conservative religious beliefs and their refusal to even acknowledge. Wanted to be called John, and...

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Cynthia Ozick NY Times Piece on Young Writers Misses the Economics | New Republic

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Allison Joyce / Getty Images. Should Young Writers "Wait Their Turn"? This Famous Old Writer Thinks So. March 30, 2015. In what might be the most highbrow get-off-my-lawn ever written (19 literary names dropped; references to typewriter brands; a dig at the new. And some untranslated, Kant-referencing German for good measure), fiction writer and essayist Cynthia Ozick complains. Old writers in their youth were resolutely immured in their first novels, steadfastly enduring unworldly and self-chosen isolat...

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Solution to Violence Against Women | New Republic

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Stopping Violence Against Women Starts With Men. September 8, 2013. I recently met a teenager from India's Dalit ("untouchable") community who had been gang-raped by a group of upper-caste men. She told me that instead of providing support after the attack last September, relatives were humiliating her. "I'm finding it hard to cope with the stigma," she said. "I worry that I will not be accepted by society.". Rashmi Singh, who heads India's National Mission for Empowerment of Women, said preventative eff...

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Energizing Through Innovation | New Republic

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The New Republic Staff. November 18, 2014. This article is sponsored by Southern Company. For the energy consumer, electricity is an instantaneous phenomenon. The light turns on with the flip of a switch, and the air conditioner clicks into action when the thermostat reads 78 degrees. But while consumers demand immediate responsiveness from the power grid, energy companies plan decades in advance to ensure the power will be there. Sign up for your daily dose of politics, culture, and big ideas.

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The New Nuclear Family | New Republic

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Patricia De Melo Moreira/Getty Images. The New Nuclear Family. What gay marriage means for the future of parenthood. July 23, 2015. Just days after Shawn Davis and Richard Sawyers were married in September 2011, they started planning to have kids. You started asking fast, Davis said recently, looking over at his husband. Was it even on the honeymoon? Amy and Danielle Wesolek with their daughter Lena, outside the Supreme Court on the day of the marriage equality ruling. The landmark ruling in. Now paves t...