Don't Bogart My Blog: Sunday Best: The case for … every top candidate

March 1, 2020

Are you a former Yang Gang member who’s now trying to figure out if Elizabeth Warren’s calls for big structural change sound more enticing than Bernie Sanders’s efforts to nudge billionaires out of U.S. politics? Our columnists made the best case for each of the top six candidates (in case you are still figuring out which Democrat to support). And while how you identify politically seems to be all anyone is talking about these days (yes, Super Tuesday is right around the corner), there’s more to it than that. Humans are nuanced — we contain multitudes. Read on for stories that explore how what we do and listen to, and what we look like can define us. — Alexandra March

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White Supremacy Goes Green

Illustration by Adam Maida; Photograph by Corbis Historical, via Getty Images

If you do a word association exercise with “environmentalism,” “Nazi” probably isn’t the image you conjure. But there’s a dark history behind the language that’s now used to describe what’s happening to our warming planet.

My Daughter Passes for White

Sally Deng

“I remain terrified of the day that she tosses her kebab sandwich in the garbage and jeers at me — her brown-skinned, Urdu-speaking mother waving goodbye to her — and loudly tells her classmates, ‘She’s my nanny.’”

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Israel’s Rihanna Is Arab and Jewish

Nasrin Kadri backstage before a concert in Tel Aviv.Dan Balilty for the New York Times

Meet Nasrin, “the Arab queen of the Israeli scene” who sings in both Arabic and Hebrew and is taking the country by storm.

I Love You (but Do You Love Mariah Carey?)

Mariah Carey performing at the 2018 American Music Awards, the world’s largest fan-voted awards show.Image Group LA, via Getty Images

Sure, you may have liked Mariah Carey’s No. 1 hit from 1997, but for one man, her music was a “lifesaving fantasyland” — and until recently, he wanted any potential love interests to feel the same.

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Who Will Care for Society’s Forgotten?

At her home in Portland, Ore., Tiffany Wicke, who developed cancer while she was incarcerated, writes a list of things she wants to do before she dies.Leah Nash for The New York Times

People experiencing homelessness didn’t always live like that. Many had families, friends, jobs and hobbies. We don’t consider that when we think of homelessness, just as we don’t think about what happens to these people when they become ill.

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