How Boston Exposes America’s Dark Post-9/11 Bargain

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14. The author

is doing the same thing he is writing about.

"....political commentators struggle to twist every nubbin of news or rumor toward some perceived short-term tactical advantage. It was as if the only real importance of this horrific but modestly scaled terrorist attack lay in how it could prove the essential rightness of one’s existing worldview...."