Word: pariahization
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When Andrew Speaker boarded an Air France flight for Paris last month carrying a form of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, he became a global pariah--both for the lethal bug in his system and for the folly of exposing other people to it. But while Speaker may have been reckless, the blame for the emergence of drug-resistant bugs like the one he is incubating falls partly on the rest of us. For years public-health officials have been raising the alarm about how our overreliance on antibiotics is breeding a generation of superbugs, increasingly resistant to the medicines designed...
Amnesty has emerged as the pariah term of the immigration debate, disavowed even by those who believe in its goals. But what are the alternatives to letting illegals stay? Deporting millions? Devising other punishments? Doing nothing at all? Few places have struggled with these questions as much as rural Beardstown, Ill., where an April immigration raid at the town's largest employer exposed a community that is both dependent on its undocumented workers and deeply resentful of their presence. Why legalizing the illegals makes sense for Beardstown - and for America...
...good time to get on board. The percentage of democracies in the world had doubled since the 1970s, to more than 60%. Many of the remaining autocracies--pariah states like North Korea, Burma and Iran--seemed to be living on borrowed time. In ideological terms, as Francis Fukuyama famously declared, history was ending--and Nigeria didn't want to be left behind...
...conservatives, who have portrayed themselves as the paladins of “end of history” Hegelian progressivism, are routinely demonized for leading the United States into a mistaken war in Iraq. All told, progress and the talk thereof have become nothing short of a pariah...
...time—especially given the developments at Walter Reed—to question the patriotism of his administration, and whether its policies “support the troops.” Would a true patriot pursue a policy that sullies the American standard, that makes United States a pariah in the civilized world? Would a true patriot place thousands of American troops in harm’s way, knowing that hope for success in their mission is long since passed? Would a true patriot have sent thousands to war, knowing that he is sending them under false pretenses...