Words matter. These are the best Alex Wagner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What is nearly certain is that Donald Trump did not consider himself a feminist in the way-back 80s, nor was he making these hiring decisions, particularly, to shatter any glass ceilings.
There has always been a thawing-out-of-something-frozen quality to a potential Joe Biden candidacy, an understanding that the man himself might be out of step with these times, but that anachronism might serve him – and the Democratic Party -well.
That’s sort of part of the American ethic – is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn’t define us. And most certainly, that was the case with my mother, who was an immigrant to America.
I think that people who find themselves at executive level positions or get really successful forget that there is nothing they have done that wasn’t the result of a lot of other peoples hard work.
In this way, there is a strange alchemy to modern campaigning: a candidate must highlight the urgency of the choice facing voters and suggest the possibility – but not probability – of defeat.
Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced in the drawing of congressional districts, each states number of Electoral College votes and the application of civil rights laws, including the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.
A generation has witnessed the fight for racial justice from the front lines: Asian Americans have been paying attention, and they are ready to put up a fight.
Few politicians and analysts understand the very real fault lines among Asian sub-groups: Some Asians have done very well for themselves. A lot of them have not.
Like nearly every other electoral subgroup in U.S. polling, ‘Asian’ is a label that masks the diversity among its peoples-perhaps even more than ‘Hispanic’ belies the significant variances between the cultures designated as such.
Granted, a lot has been made of Hillary Clintons sense of humor – her laugh is shrill, too many of her jokes have seemed too prepared for far too long.
Uber has changed the world – and my NYC life! Its easy, quick and – if youre not caught in a snowstorm pretty reasonable.
To some Americans, there was no possible way I could naturally be the daughter of this white American; I had to be from someplace else.
Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like its actually a functioning place.
Politicians dont expect the argument of the day to infiltrate restaurants, but of course they do, because were all human beings.
In my off hours, I’m definitely not a product-driven person. I’ve always thought less was more.
But then I realized, I think maybe we’re too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn’t somehow within ourselves and among each other.
Today I was trying to eat a beignet on camera. You cant do that. You cant even eat a beignet on a date, let alone in front of an audience of a million people. I still havent learned my lesson.
Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don’t actually listen to people who know things.
My father grew up in a Norman Rockwell postcard. His mother was a stay-at-home mom, his father was a rural mailman, they had six kids.
It’s not fun telling people they have to turn their stories in. But you can’t actually have a creative work environment if there are no rules and there’s no structure.
Even more troubling, not only are Asians largely unseen at the front line of the immigration debate, they are not using the resources available to help them manage their undocumented status.
Politics remind us of the big divide between different parts of the country, but also that we all have to run this ship together. Were all married to one another and there is no divorce happening.
The general trend in television is to be more transparent, and that is especially true for women: to not pretend that we wake up with our hair in perfect shellacked bobs.
You have to have at least some kind of baseline coverage under the studio lights. It’s not like normal makeup; it’s like walking around with a wet coat of paint on your face.
When we think of community, we think of some sort of nebulous, faraway group of people rather than the men and the women who touch our daily lives.
There’s a lot of ‘ancestor tourism’: and people will go back to Ireland to touch ground and have a pint in the same place where their forefathers once did whatever their forefathers did, and there’s a real strong idea that we connect to the place once we get there.
When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.
This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able to poke fun at themselves – and the gravitas of their position.
Fox Newss unique blend of xenophobia and division has always been popular and highly lucrative.
On some of the key issues where Asians struggle alongside other minorities, as far as the media and the American public are concerned, Asians remain unseen.
My goal is to show the intermingling between politics and pop culture.
When I had my first son, in 2017, we decided to give him a Burmese middle name. I picked Mindon, after the penultimate king of Burma. It sounded strong and regal, and it wasnt too difficult for a Western speaker.
I wanted to know who my people were. And I – I think like a lot of Americans – thought that I could find those people in the past. I could find this mythic tribe of elders who would ground me in a story that was irrefutable, undeniable, that was unique and my own, and it would satisfy all my cravings.
