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Dick Meyer

Washington, D.C.
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Chief Washington Correspondent, Scripps News & @DecodeDC. Ex @CBSNews, @NPR, @BBCNews. Author Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium.
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Discontent Comes to the Outer Cape

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By Dick Meyer
| The Provincetown Independent
In the summer of 2008, I published a quickly forgotten book titled Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. It was not optimistic. But it came out at an optimistic moment. In August 2008, it seemed clear that America was about to elect its first Black president. I was out of step. In a harrowing appearance on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert described me as a grumpy old man yelling at the neighbor kids to get off the lawn.
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Opinion: Magic of GOP'S voodoo running out

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By Dick Meyer
| KJRH-TV (Tulsa, OK)
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are successfully fracking the Republican Party. The loudest explosions and most noxious fumes are coming from the crackup of the tectonic plate that once supported the party’s two great factions.
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Opinion: Graduates, beware, bad advice ahead

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By Dick Meyer
| KJRH-TV (Tulsa, OK)
The rites of the graduation are commencing. In gyms, auditoriums and grassy quads, high school and college graduates will be treated, or subjected, to the great tradition of oratorical advice. The most popular advice nowadays, grads be warned, is lame. I did an informal, perhaps biased, survey of last year’s college graduation speeches. The most common counsel to these educated young people was this: Follow your passion. Catch your star. Pursue your dream. You can do anything you want and so go do it.
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