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Archive of posts published in the tag: Maureen Dowd

Uberization of America

From Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, Driving Uber Mad As The Wall Street Journal recently reported, “There’s an Uber for everything now. Washio is for having someone do your laundry, Sprig and SpoonRocket cook your dinner and Shyp will

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The Clinton Tradeoff

From the New York Times, Maureen Dowd writes An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com excerpts: Because you assume that if it’s good for the Clintons, it’s good for the world, you’re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires,

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Political Commercialism

Until Harry Truman wrote his memoirs, the ex-president struggled on an Army pension of $112.56 a month. “I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable,” he said, “that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office

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