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The countervailing forces that can combat misinformation—literature, art, logic, critical thinking, civics, and history—have meanwhile been deemphasized in education in favor of “workforce development.”
How to fix what the innovation economy broke about America | Katie McLean | February 17, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn other words, when there was countervailing power in our system.
The system is ‘rigged’: Robert Reich on the Supreme Court, economic inequality, and his Twitter beef with Elon Musk | reymashayekhi | October 12, 2020 | FortuneOnly a countervailing principle like equal citizenship can stop it from expanding indefinitely—as it has been doing.
Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface | Jedediah Purdy | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The state likely will lead in the countervailing lawsuits when (insert a horrid disease here) is found to be linked to e-puffing.
Big Tobacco, Not MRSA, Is the Real Problem With E-Cigarettes | Kent Sepkowitz | May 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe only reliable countervailing power to organized money is organized people.
March on Washington Anniversary: a Lesson for Change | Hedrick Smith | August 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTContrary to common assumptions, the Bush-Kerry campaign of 2004 offers no countervailing example.
Obama Must Defend His Own Record, Not Savage Romney’s Character | Michael Medved | July 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTExcessive secrecy and the countervailing need to share information only exacerbate and complicate the situation.
Bradley Manning Trial: Questioning Why So Much Is Classified | Denver Nicks | December 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST(p. 23) Nor are even misfortunes when they occur, as occur they must, utterly devoid of some countervailing joys.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.One countervailing influence to my drift to Toryism in those days was Margaret's quite religious faith in the Liberals.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsHence the overpursuit of any one subject may be hurtful, unless duly balanced by countervailing forces.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 | VariousThat, to my mind, is a very great and insuperable objection, and I do not see any countervailing advantage.
From 1899 to 1904 a countervailing duty was imposed on bounty-fed beet sugar.
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