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" In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens. "
Laura Moser
Journalism
Book
Parenting
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" If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself. "
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" With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes. "
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" If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans. "
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" Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that. "
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" I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them. "
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" Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance. "
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" I don't claim any great experience or expertise. "
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Any
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" It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state. "
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Say
Truism
" The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy. "
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Desire
Generation
" I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland. "
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Ohio
Always
Wanted
" There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights. "
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Abortion
Education
" The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties. "
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Work
Copy
Early
" My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years. "
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City
Language
Money
" I believe in following opportunities. "
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I Believe
Believe
Opportunities
" Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development. "
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Good
Us
School
" Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us. "
Laura Moser
Abortion
Us
Immigration
" In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together. "
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Life
Night
School
" As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves. "
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Life
Parents
Better
" I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one. "
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Always
Landscape
Reality
" Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. "
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Grit
Intelligence
Predict
" We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right? "
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Right
Feeding
Behind
" My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid. "
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Texas
Country
Drive
" I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election. "
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Believe
Winning
Election
" You have to follow that next step. "
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Step
Follow
Next
" New York City has an integration problem. "
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New York
City
New
" I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx. "
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Mother
Up
Man
" The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings. "
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Young
Said
Only
" Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage. "
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Me
Beat
Campaign
" Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore. "
Laura Moser
Just
Diversity
Big