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A personal note: This will be my last piece as a staff writer for Slate after 11 years on the job. As such, I wanted to get down a few brief thoughts about What It Has All Meant.

My tenure writing about news and politics for this publication has, needless to say, covered an incredibly interesting period —a tumultuous time of fascinating social changes that will no doubt be remembered as one of the most eventful eras a great nation has ever experienced. (LOL.)

To some extent, the country is the same as it was when I started—politically polarized along lines having to do with race, culture, and the proper role of government in a market economy. But in other w

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