
Sean Illing
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A Georgia professor explains the unique cultural factors that create skepticism toward science in the South.


“A war of Republican against Republican, conservative against conservative.”

“All you’ll have left is the party The Left always accused you of being.”

Charlie Sykes on Trump and the decay of the conservative moment.

“This is an insane system.” — Bruce Friedrich, The Good Food Institute

“This is a mass addiction.”

Bill Maher on Trump’s new campaign manager (and other things).

Brown University’s Glenn Loury: “We’re arguing about labels, about what to call our holidays, or which portraits to rearrange on the wall.”

“Sometimes you have to break the law to serve it.”

“I just want to make America something that ain’t that dude’s vision.”