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A week later, Kelly made an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to persuade Trump not to replace him with Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman from South Carolina who was serving as Trump’s budget director. “You don’t want to hire someone who’s going to be a yes-man,” Kelly told the President. “I don’t give a shit anymore,” Trump replied. “I want a yes-man!”
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
newyorker.com
For although the jianghu is often described in a rhetoric of mutual reciprocity and trust, the interpersonal relationships that actually constitute it are “held together by shifting bonds of morality, desire, and interest” that make them “highly fragile and contingent.”
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Yunnan resists any underlying unity in its cuisine.
2022 Letter | Dan Wang
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