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Kirsten Powers
American
Author
Born:
Dec 14
,
1967
About
Against
People
Time
Women
You
In their ideological zeal, the feminists of the illiberal left don't seem to realize how they've given feminism a bad name.
Kirsten Powers
Feminism
Bad
Seem
Given
Name
Ideological
How
Feminists
Left
Realize
Zeal
Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.
Kirsten Powers
Free
Free Speech
Only
He
Supporters
His
Trump
Loves
Speaking
Speech
It's true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent.
Kirsten Powers
Success
Politics
Game
Celebrate
Nothing
Other
President
Side
President Obama
Approval
Slightly
Obama
Thrilled
Ratings
Wins
True
Democrats
Opponent
Loses
Odious
Than
American
Just
Depends
Being
Then
Electoral
Your
Congressional
Less
Zero-Sum
Campuses should be places where students are able to make mistakes without fear of retribution. If there is no margin for error, it is impossible to receive a meaningful education.
Kirsten Powers
Education
Fear
Impossible
Mistakes
Able
Students
Retribution
Make
Without
Error
Where
Places
Meaningful
Should
Margin
Receive
I sometimes hear Christians talk about how terrible life must be for atheists. But our lives were not terrible. Life actually seemed pretty wonderful, filled with opportunity and good conversation and privilege.
Kirsten Powers
Life
Good
Conversation
Wonderful
Sometimes
Opportunity
Our
Our Lives
Must
Atheists
Pretty
About
Seemed
Talk
Terrible
How
Were
Hear
Privilege
Good Conversation
Filled
Lives
Actually
Christians
Women likely are rejecting Trump because they know the presidential race isn't just about taxes or ISIL or immigration. It's about their place in society and how a Trump presidency would drag women back a half-century.
Kirsten Powers
Women
Immigration
Society
Presidency
Back
Presidential
Presidential Race
Would
About
Know
Likely
Because
How
Trump
Just
Place
Race
Taxes
Rejecting
Drag
Did you know there is a war on women? Yes, it's true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts.
Kirsten Powers
War
You
Women
Outburst
True
Know
Waging
Been
Years
Matt
Yes
Did
Bill
Chris
Within the paradigm of Democratic politics, even though people probably think I'm a centrist, I'm more a liberal, except for abortion.
Kirsten Powers
Politics
People
Abortion
Think
Liberal
Though
Paradigm
More
Except
Democratic
Within
Centrist
Even
Despite frequently mocking anti-abortion activists as anti-science know-nothings, abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion.
Kirsten Powers
Rights
Abortion
Despite
Facts
Loose
Frequently
Mocking
Who
Activists
Fast
Play
Rather than teach women how to negotiate with sexists or shrink themselves down to 'likeable' size, perhaps the solution would be for employers to stop being sexist. In the meantime, women will continue to be blamed for their lower salaries.
Kirsten Powers
Women
Will
Down
Negotiate
Would
Solution
Would-Be
Sexist
Rather
Blamed
Likeable
Perhaps
Employers
How
Continue
Salaries
Than
Stop
Being
Size
Themselves
Lower
Meantime
Teach
Shrink
The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone - almost always a liberal - has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making.
Kirsten Powers
Offended
Country
Every
Liberal
Out
Has-Been
Someone
Potential
Almost
Always
Making
Been
Offense
Root
Across
Nearly
It's not hard to see how accusations against Trump as a racist and misogynist would be met with eye rolls and knowing murmurs of 'political correctness' by people who have had their worldview constantly caricatured and demonized by the cultural elites in academia, media and politics.
Kirsten Powers
Politics
People
Political
Worldview
Met
Correctness
Eye
Would
Would-Be
Constantly
See
Had
Academia
Knowing
How
Political Correctness
Cultural
Trump
Accusation
Rolls
Against
Hard
Who
Media
Murmur
Elites
One question predominates among Democratic voters assessing which candidate to nominate as the Democratic standard-bearer for 2020: 'Can they beat Donald Trump?'
Kirsten Powers
Beat
Voters
Democratic
Question
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Candidate
Which
Among
Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.
Kirsten Powers
Hypocrisy
Become
Prominent
Religious
Religious Right
Something
Feature
Perhaps
Most
Era
Trump
Against
Right
Jesus
I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democratic politics in New York, so that's what we sort of bonded over - that was our religion, to a certain extent.
Kirsten Powers
Life
Politics
Religion
Think
Our
I Think
Administration
Bubble
Had
Over
New
Democratic
Sort
Clinton
Clinton Administration
Friends
Very
York
New York
Centered
Then
Worked
Much
Certain
Certain Extent
There And Then
Whole
Extent
Bonded
The media is not the most Christian-friendly place in the world for the most part. At the same time, a lot of these Christians bring it on themselves.
Kirsten Powers
Time
World
Part
Most
Lot
Same
Same Time
Place
Themselves
Media
Bring
Christians
Obama quickly became an effective advocate for the view that government is a critical part of the solution to society's problems. So effective that he won reelection in the midst of a struggling economy.
Kirsten Powers
Government
Problems
Society
Critical
Obama
Solution
Struggling
He
Part
Economy
Became
Advocate
Effective
Won
Quickly
Midst
View
By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.
Kirsten Powers
You
Conversation
Imbalance
Our
Broader
System
About
Structural
Economic
Allowed
Economic System
Industry
Chemical
Mean
Flaws
Means
Use
Deep
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Industry
Medication
All my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family.
Kirsten Powers
Family
Liberal
Liberals
All My Friends
Were
Up
Friends
Grew
Really
I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways and they're attached to white men who are benefiting from the system that was created by them, for them, and their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefiting from the system and so they are also benefiting.
Kirsten Powers
Women
Benefits
Remember
Men
White
Think
Fathers
Benefiting
I Think
Ways
System
Brothers
Husbands
Attached
Also
Lot
Patriarchal
Them
Created
White Women
Who
Actually
Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders do.
Kirsten Powers
Women
Society
Way
Sexual
Participants
Equal
His
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Cannot
Harassment
Views
Assault
Defenders
We need to get beyond the stereotypes. Palin has been cast as a right-wing nut job in the media, yet her actual record suggests something more complex. She is a Republican who made herself the enemy of oil companies in Alaska.
Kirsten Powers
Enemy
Job
Made
Herself
Nut
Complex
Right-Wing
Has-Been
Record
Something
More
Cast
Stereotypes
Beyond
She
Been
Get
Oil
Oil Companies
Republican
Who
Companies
Media
Actual
Her
Alaska
Palin
Need
The average religious person has their beliefs, but they're not trying to get people fired who don't have their beliefs. But zealots do do that. It's not enough for them to believe it; they can't tolerate other people who don't believe what they believe, and they have this absolute certainty that they're right.
Kirsten Powers
People
Believe
Other
Enough
Religious
Religious Person
Absolute
Fired
Person
Get
Trying
Them
Average
Certainty
Who
Tolerate
Beliefs
Right
I've been harassed or on the receiving end of sexist and inappropriate behavior almost every place I've ever worked.
Kirsten Powers
Behavior
Every
Sexist
Almost
Been
End
Place
Inappropriate
Worked
Harassed
Ever
Receiving
If I had a dollar for every time somebody said, 'I don't understand: how can you be a Democrat and be a Christian?' I'd be a millionaire.
Kirsten Powers
Time
You
Millionaire
Somebody
Christian
Every
Every Time
Had
Democrat
Understand
Said
How
Dollar
In our pugilistic take-no-prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural.
Kirsten Powers
Grace
Political
Preaching
Other
Side
Our
Those
Toward
Era
Fence
Decidedly
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