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One of the many challenging things about living with me, for the few who’ve made the attempt, is that I am something of a packrat. Hoarder is the term of art these days, although in its true sense, this term…

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A More Accurate Look at 2020 Primary Polls

With the first round of Democratic primary debates behind us and the next about to be announced, the 2020 campaign is in full swing. More than twenty candidates are elbowing for the right to take on Donald Trump as a…

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Barely South Review Publishes “Cars with Strangers”

Barely South Review, the literary journal of Old Dominion University’s Creative Writing program, recently published Storey Clayton’s “Cars with Strangers,” an excerpt from his ridesharing memoir Driving for U: Behind the Wheel of a New Orleans Uber. While the print copy of the…

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APDA Nationals 2017: A Debate Odyssey

It is three-thirty in the afternoon on a Thursday, the day before the first American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) Championships to ever be held at Rutgers University will commence. I am in a grungy but comfortable New Brunswick apartment just…

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The Putin Playbook

“I always felt fine about Putin. I think that he’s a strong leader. He’s a powerful leader. … He’s actually got a popularity within his country. They respect him as a leader. … I would talk to him, I would…

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