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What we talk about when we talk about politics

What we talk about when we talk about politics

A case for a new political language

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Anand Giridharadas
Oct 01, 2021
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I spend my life in language. And so as I’ve watched the country talk over these many months about legislative proposals to help a hurting country, I was at first struck by something, then maddened by it. We have come to a place in American political life where we no longer talk about the thing. We are always talking around the thing. About the process t…

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