Links for 07/02/15

by Michael Sean Winters

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In this morning's WaPo, E.J. Dionne notices the part of Gov. Chris Christie's announcement speech that everyone else missed - his tribute to hard work and his family. Let's hope that at least some people at the World Meeting on Families focuses on the socio-economic challenges facing families too. 

Also in this morning's WaPo, Harold Meyerson on how the march for economic rights has not kept pace with the march for civil rights. For all the outrage from the right, and all the celebrations from the left, over last week's decision on same sex marriage, where is the concern for the loss in economic equality that has transpired the last few decades? 

At Vox, the shocking things you hear when you work as a tour guide at a plantation. 

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