When Jaya Bachchan Called Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Her ‘Buddy’: I Don’t Do Politics… | Republic World
28 Aug
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When Jaya Bachchan Called Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Her ‘Buddy’: I Don’t Do Politics… | Republic World

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Politics tamfitronics Published 18:43 IST, August 27th 2024 When Jaya Bachchan Called Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Her 'Buddy': I Don’t Do Politics... Politics tamfitronics Jaya Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai: In an old interview the Sholay actress heaped praises on her daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai and called her a 'buddy'. Entertainment News 2 min read Reported by: Republic Entertainment Desk Follow: Aishwarya Rai - Jaya Bachchan file photo | Image: Instagram Listen to this article 2 min read Advertisement 18:43 IST, August 27th 2024 ...
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In “We’re Not Going Back!” Dems Find an Antidote to the Politics of Nostalgia
28 Aug
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In “We’re Not Going Back!” Dems Find an Antidote to the Politics of Nostalgia

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Politics tamfitronics Editorial / August 27, 2024Underneath the cliché that “we’re all in this together” lie harder truths that will need to be faced if Harris and Walz want to rally the nation for real change.Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, greet supporters.(Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty)The failed campaign to save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—the Italian immigrants and anarchists who were executed in 1927 for a bank robbery and murder they didn’t commit—prompted John Dos Passos to lament, in his novel The Big Moneythat “our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums and sweated the wealth out of our people and when...
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The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality
28 Aug
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The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality

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Politics tamfitronics Books & the Arts / August 27, 2024Politics tamfitronics Zig and ZagThe surprising origins and politics of equalityA series of new books unearth the long history of egalitarian politics. They also ask whether equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics? New York Stock Exchange, 1895.(Getty)In the chilling speech he gives at the end of the film Margin CallJeremy Irons says that no one should say they believe in equality, because no one really thinks it exists: The very idea camouflages the endurance of hierarchy in an essentially unchanging form. “It’s certainly no different today than it’s ever been,” he explains to an underling. “There have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers….Books in reviewBasic Equalityby Paul SagarBuy this...
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Political conventions can be a bubble. Then it’s back to the real world.
28 Aug
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Political conventions can be a bubble. Then it’s back to the real world.

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Politics tamfitronics A political convention is a big bubble, filled with energy toward what can seem like inevitable victory. That was the feeling at Chicago’s United Center last Thursday night as Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage. And that has been the feeling at every convention, Democratic and Republican, I’ve attended since 1996.The Republican bubble – which was likewise filled with energy and optimism about a win in November – burst shortly after the convention, when President Joe Biden suddenly dropped out of the race and was quickly replaced by Vice President Harris.The news Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was suspending his independent bid for president, and endorsing former President Donald Trump, presented yet another twist that could affect the race.Politics tamfitronics Why We Wrote ThisHype and hope are perennial features of political...
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