Irina Eremia Bragin is a writer and head of the English Department at Touro College Los Angeles. She is the author of “Subterranean Towers: A Father-Daughter Story.” Follow her on Twitter @bragin_irina
Irina Eremia Bragin
By Irina Eremia Bragin
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Community I Survived A Totalitarian Regime. ‘Believe All Women’ Is A Recipe For Disaster
I was six- years-old, growing up in Bucharest, Romania, when I was denounced as a public menace. Mariana, who lived next door, was the first to jump on the bandwagon. Her parents were communist party officials. Until that moment, I didn’t know why we were hiding at my grandparents’ house and everyone spoke in whispers,…
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Opinion How Hillary’s Speech Patterns Reveal Biggest Advantage Over Bernie
Hillary Clinton is the most thoughtful candidate, the most “talkative,” “optimistic” and “positive.” That’s according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal — a newspaper that is not exactly a fan of Clinton. Offering a textual analysis of the article concluded that Clinton’s language “indicated more cognitive processing, rather than self-certainty, a signal…
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