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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

by Jonathan Blitzer

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Cuba: An American History

by Ada Ferrer

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Book cover for Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings by Natasha Lunn

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What do you wish you’d known about love? That I needn’t worry about not being good enough. And that love is about finding a home. Our parents aren’t going to live for ever, so I think we need to find a tribe, a family, a community or a ...more

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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck

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“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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