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The trick is how we stay engaged and stay positive...the simplest solution is just to cut off our access to the media entirely, but that is obviously highly problematic for all of us who care about the world and want to be engaged citizens.
Jonathan Tepperman, Former Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy
In a December, 2022, episode of Deep Dish
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