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• President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

  Steve Inskeep

  Choices, Relation, Threat

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let me name three of the people who influenced me, although it's definitely not a complete list. Ayesha Jalal, the formidable Pakistani-American historian, has rigorously re-evaluated Jinnah's political strategies leading up to Partition. Akbar Ahmed, a former diplomat and now a distinguished scholar, has documented Jinnah's life as a man who welcomed, worked with, and even married people of other faiths. And then there is Ardeshir Cowasjee, the great Parsi newspaper columnist, who in his mid-80s is a kind of living history of all of Pakistan, old enough to have known Jinnah himself.

  Steve Inskeep

  Men, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.

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  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I choose the picture of the cover of the book 'Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi', I thought, gosh, many people in Karachi may not like this image; I'm representing the city as a burning bus. But to the contrary, they loved it, because that is people's understanding of their own city, of going on with life no matter what.

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  Book, People, Life And Death

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.

  Steve Inskeep

  Crazy, Rhythm, Catastrophe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.

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  Wonder, Speak, Instant

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have reported enough about Islam and terrorism to recognize that a lot of what is at stake is not strictly religion, even though it's also about power and control. In the case of Karachi, like so many other growing cities, it's also about land, mafias, gang activity.

  Steve Inskeep

  Islam, Mafia, Gang

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty by dealing with Southern senators, Southern congressmen, horse trading with them, cajoling them, learning what not to talk about. And he got civil rights passed and Great Society programs. That should be the model. Get over yourself.

  Steve Inskeep

  Horse, Dirty, Rights

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

  Steve Inskeep

  Dirty, Victory, Noble

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

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  Tired, Winning, Sick

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Many Democrats are in a reflective mood . They lost the White House this year [2016], which would not matter as much as it does, except they also failed to take back the Senate, remain out of power in the House and are out of power in most states.

  Steve Inskeep

  Years, White, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People are supposed to be loyal to the country above [Donald's Trump] family.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, People, Loyal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The New York Times reports that [Donald] Trump wants [Jared] Kushner in the White House, and he's exploring whether he can take a position. It's problematic, though, because even an unpaid job could fall under a law prohibiting nepotism.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, New York, Fall

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

  Steve Inskeep

  Son, Law, Trump

  "The Rise Of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's Son-In-Law". "Morning Edition" with David Folkenflik, wrvo.org. November 18, 2016.

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• Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly qualified that he or she would be hard to reject. The person must also be willing to be nominated even though leading Senate Republicans have said they will not consider anyone the president names.

  Steve Inskeep

  Names, President, Would Be

  "Supreme Court Nominating Process Shrouded In Secrecy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• Younger people - not just older people - holding this basic underlying attitude that's suggested there that women aren't worth much, that they're property, that just about anything can be done with them.

  Steve Inskeep

  Attitude, People, Done

  "What It's Like To Be Young And Male In Pakistan". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex.

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  Girl, Sex, Men

  "What It's Like To Be Young And Male In Pakistan". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• We have to remember in that Bloomberg poll, strong Republican support for [Donald ]Trump's proposal, but the country at large - strong opposition to that support.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Strong, Support

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

  Steve Inskeep

  Criticism, Trying, Republican

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Bloomberg says in this poll, leaders from across the political spectrum have condemned this policy, saying banning members of an entire religion from entering the country goes against everything we believe in as Americans, and it will make our country less safe by alienated the allies we need to fight ISIS.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Believe, Fighting

  "Despite Backlash Over Muslim Comments, Supporters Stand By Trump". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, wkms.org. December 10, 2015.

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• As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Common Sense, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.

  Steve Inskeep

  Party, Presidential, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

  Steve Inskeep

  New York, Answers, Debate

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

  Steve Inskeep

  Popular Vote, Two, Election

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

  Steve Inskeep

  Identity Politics, Issues, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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