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...strength in this year’s Democratic debates makes her dizzying fall in the polls somewhat puzzling. The juxtaposition of her consistently strong performance in the policy realm with her patchwork poor performance at the voting booth begs a fundamental question: If not mastery of policy, just what criteria do Americans use to pick their president? Does it boil down to raw identity politics? Or, even worse, is Hillary-hatred based on factors as (literally) cosmetic as her brow and laugh? Are we truly to choose a commander in chief based on the candidate’s marital history...
...himself to vote for such a frigid you-know-what. Far from elegant (or even reasonable), the process by which we make our most important political choices is a sticky web of policy, identity, and a strong thirst for likeable leadership; our inability to gauge, much less standardize, these criteria with which we size up our options is at the same time the most beautiful and frustrating element of our electoral process. In this way, the choice between Senators Clinton and Obama represents neither a battle of the sexes, nor a clash of black versus white, but rather, an unprecedented...
...WORKS: Lenders list the total amount they'd like to loan and the risk level they can stand. They can select individual borrowers who meet their criteria, or the site's Lending Match program will generate a portfolio. The mean 12.32% interest rate beats the current 3% average return...
...dangers of allowing sociological concerns overtake artistic merit in competitions for public arts grants.“Brustein’s surprisingly sophomoric assumption that this tremendous outpouring of work by minority artists leads to confusing standards and that funding agencies have started substituting sociological for aesthetic criteria, leaving aside notions like quality and excellence, shows him to be a victim of 19th-century thinking and the linguistic environment that posits blacks as unqualified,” Wilson said.Brustein shot back immediately. In a piece called “Subsidized Separatism,” he referred to Wilson?...
...systematically narrowing the acceptable range of human behavior by increasing the number of diseases afflicting the human mind. To illustrate his point, Lane explores the expansion of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—the handbook listing the types of mental disorders and their criteria. In 1994, the fourth edition of the DSM appeared with 400 more pages than the previous edition...