I think it important to keep in mind that this person didn’t invent religiously-motivated bigotry; she inherited it. She’s a victim of the same system of ugly ideas and self-perpetuating belief systems, even if she is helping to propagate that bigotry.

You’re right. The register of “groceries” is fantastic — vernacular, spontaneous, juicy. Love that sibilance.

New journalism, literary journalism, creative nonfiction — I’d expect you’d find different nomenclature in use even among different English departments. The jargon of lit is much more various than that of some other fields. Perhaps unsurprising, given that these are wordies?

Re: “literary journalism.” In fact, it’s a term that refers to a specific genre, not a focus area. Specifically, it refers to the kind of story-driven, lengthy, stylish commercial writing that is sometimes also called “magazine journalism” or “creative nonfiction.”

Not really, though? It’s a genre distinction.

So maybe he doesn't need to be a candidate. Are there not other ways for him to advance the progressive agenda, beyond sitting as President?

Brilliant. And she can nominate BHO for the SCOTUS.

She could run...

Stylishish.

<< The only reason I asked for research is because you refused to support your statement, or at least the statement it logically seemed you were making with your words.>>

<<Ok, so you’re not interested in actually understanding or finding facts, just spewing feels.>>

<<And yet, you didn’t do the one thing I asked, provide numbers that actually prove your point.>>

<<I have a really hard time understanding how if most drivers were in the red at the end of the year, that they would continue to be part of an at will employment system that offered no direct benefits.>>

As many a policy wonk, politician, and economist has come to learn, this kind of “common sense” understanding of economic behavior is largely useless for understanding the real dynamics underlying economic privilege, employment mobility, and socioeconomic freedom. The *sort* of reasoning you are employing doesn’t map…

“That’s probably when they should start doing some other kind of work.”

The taxi industry =/= taxi drivers.

Great example: A freelancer working 40 hours sets their rates high enough to cover their tax burden. An Uber driver cannot change the rate.

In American usage, reported speech is almost always surrounded by quotation marks that contain the ending punctuation, while dubitative or ‘rabbit-ear’ speech, which is sometimes tagged with phrases like ‘so-called’, is often surrounded by quotation marks that do not contain the ending punctuation. (This latter form…

Genuinely sorry, but I think we’re talking past one another.

<<Fact-checking is not part of the editing process...>>