Will Bunch
Will Bunch is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of its popular blog Attytood.
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Views Saturday, December 15, 2018 Is France Showing Us What America’s Next Civil War Will Look Like? It’s October 2021. America is in a state of turmoil – so much so that the ongoing felony trial of disgraced former president Donald Trump seems only a footnote. The chaos of the 2020 election has meant no honeymoon for Beto O’Rourke, the 47th president, whose narrow win over the GOP’s Nikki Haley (... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 26, 2018 Oil Is the Poison That Burns Paradise, Kills Kashshoggi, Inflames Paris. When Will We Quit? The elevator pitch is that global warming should terrify fiscal conservatives because the costs are enormous (wiping out 10 percent of America's gross domestic product, double the hit from the Great Recession of a decade ago), its negative effects are already here in ways that are obvious (the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 11, 2018 George W. Bush Started an Immoral War. Now He's Getting the Liberty Medal At least the timing is exquisite. Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are coming to Philadelphia on Sunday night to receive the National Constitution Center's much-ballyhooed Liberty Medal, which is supposed to be earmarked for leaders "who have strived to secure the blessings of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 07, 2018 Trump Appealed to the Very Worst in America. Too Often, It Worked For all the people who spent much of the last two years saying, "America is better than that …" Apparently, it's not. For two months, President Trump pulled out everything in his bag of tricks to excite the rabid base of overwhelmingly white voters who shocked the world by delivering him the White... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 02, 2018 Stop Blaming Millennials for Not Voting. Blame America’s Screwed-up System—and Fix It! In what people are calling — accurately, in my opinion — the most important American midterm election in our lifetimes, there's been a lot of things we've never seen before: like, for example. a president sending thousands of troops to the U.S. southern border or erasing the existence of more than... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 29, 2018 The Love That a Pittsburgh Madman Tried to Extinguish – and How You Can Feed the Flame Beginning in 1880 — before the words "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" were stamped on the Statue of Liberty dedicated on this very date 132 years ago — Jewish refugees fleeing violent pogroms in Europe were often met in New York Harbor by volunteers from... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 15, 2018 Trump Is Clamping Down on White House Protest. Be Very Afraid of What Comes Next It hasn't gotten the attention it deserves — almost nothing does anymore — but since July 16, a colorful and boisterous protest has taken place every single night in front of Donald Trump's White House. The crowds — sometimes in the hundreds, sometimes less — try to mix it up and have a little fun... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 01, 2018 Maria Gallagher, Ana Maria Archila and the Amazing Power of Everyday People Raising Their Voice Maria Gallagher, a 23-year-old woman from New York, had never told anyone about the time she was sexually assaulted before she blurted it out to a United States senator, Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona, with millions watching on live national television. During a remarkable, emotional three-minute... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 17, 2018 Trumpism Is Fueled by One Thing: Fear. 12,800 Kids Are Paying a Terrible Price It seemed like a typical Tuesday morning last month when Juan Esquivel noticed a helicopter hovering over the East Texas trailer-parts factory where the Mexican native had worked for much of his 23 years in the United States — doing a hard manufacturing job that few Americans are lining up to do,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 12, 2018 North Carolina Politicians Have Decried the Climate-Change Science That Makes Hurricane Florence so Dangerous For most of the eastern United States, this is a week of high anxiety — fixated on a swirling red, green, and yellow blob at the bottom of the TV screen and the increasing certainty that the most powerful East Coast storm of our lifetimes is going to slam into the coastal Carolinas with a massive... Read more |