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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

So it should have been predictable that when Donald Trump kicked off his campaign for the presidency with race-baiting comments against Mexicans after a long campaign claiming that the first African-American president wasn’t born in the US that I would speak up. You should, too. It is beautifully done.

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And Then They Came for Me …

Both Sides of the Table

Yet the only horror I experienced was watching Peter Thiel stand in front of a national media audience and re-endorse Donald Trump for President. You don’t get to launch your campaign saying illegal Mexicans are “rapists and murderers and some, I assume, are good people.” You don’t get to create a division between the 3.3

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Here are The Missing Positives of This Election

Both Sides of the Table

I have felt more connected and more bonded and increased my respect for those who have taken moral stands or have put in hours of work for the campaign. I say emotional because it touched me that a senior media executive would put his life on hold to literally walk and knock on doors. Who else currently has elected a female leader ? — Liberia,

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. His name is Tomas Pueyo.