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TURNS OUT AN ‘EMOTIONAL VACATION’ WAS JUST THE KIND OF VACATION I NEEDED

YOU KEEP SAYING THAT you’re tired of politics. This is strange, since you don’t actually do anything about politics, like vote. But we in the mainstream media are no longer in a position to argue with you, so if you say you’re sick of politics, then we are absolutely nauseated by it. That’s why my editors decided to grant TIME readers what they call an “emotional vacation” with this issue, titled 240 Things to Celebrate About America Right Now. I’m assuming this

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