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1970By a vote of 5 to 3, the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Brennan, rules in Goldberg v. Kelly that the Constitution requires that the government provide an evidentiary hearing before terminating welfare payments to an individual whom it has determined is not eligible to receive such payments. Justice Black objects in dissent:

I would have little, if any, objection to the majoritys decision in this case if it were written as the report of the House Committee on Education and Labor, but, as an opinion ostensibly resting on the language of the Constitution, I find it woefully deficient. [I]t is obvious that todays result does not depend on the language of the Constitution itself or the principles of other decisions, but solely on the collective judgment of the majority as to what would be a fair and humane procedure in this case.

2004The Left is adept at what Abraham Lincoln labeled lullaby argumentsfalse claims designed to lull the listener into a sense of complacency. In testimony at a Senate hearing, law professor Cass Sunstein argues that a constitutional amendment on marriage is unnecessary because the prospect that the Supreme Court would invent a constitutional right to same-sex marriage is utterly fanciful:

It is possible that the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs will meet in the World Series and play to a seventh game tie. That is unlikely, but that scenario is more likely than it is that the Supreme Court of the United States, as currently constituted, will hold that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. This is a reckless conception of what is on the horizon and it is indefensible by reference to anything any Supreme Court Justice has said, at least on the bench, and I believe even off the bench.

Sunstein was testifying less than one year after the Supreme Courts 6-3 decision in Lawrence v. Texas. In his majority opinion for five justices in that case, Justice Kennedy combined his usual gauzy rhetoric with the specific assertions that our laws and tradition afford constitutional protection to personal decisions relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, child reading, and education (emphasis added) and that [p]ersons in a homosexual relationship may seek autonomy for these purposes, just as heterosexual persons do. So much for Sunsteins claim that any concern that the Court might hold that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage was a reckless conception of what is on the horizon and indefensible by reference to anything any Supreme Court Justice has said.

2009President Obama nominates radical transnationalist Harold Koh to be State Department legal adviser, a position that would give Koh a cornucopia of opportunities to advance his agenda of having American courts import international law to override the policies that American citizens adopt through the processes of representative government. (See here for more detail.) Three months later, the Senate confirms Koh by a 62-35 vote.

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, right, speaks as Ontario Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault looks on during a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, March 2, 2017, to announce the government's hydro relief plan. Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS

When a government picks a slogan, you never hear the end of it.

News releases, social media feeds, podium placards, radio and TV advertising, speeches by ministers the branding is everywhere, backed by the hefty resources of the state. With the federal Liberal government, its been real change and a strong middle class, over and over again.

In Ontario, the slogan after the 2014 election was building Ontario up, and, more particularly, the governments four-part plan to build Ontario up. Everything the governmentdidsomehow fit into those four parts. It was on every single news release for years.When the legislature cafeteria cancelled its Friday $5 fish-and-chips special (to my lasting chagrin), I have no doubt the premiers office could have justified it with the four-part plan if asked.

This is how political messaging works. It gets repeated endlesslyso it percolatesthrough to the public, even if the media never usesit.

Premier Kathleen Wynnes Liberals now have a new slogan, with its own website and social media accounts. Its called The facts still matter in Ontario, and it involves a daily effort to fact check something the Opposition (almost always Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown) has said.

Sometimes these facts still matter dispatchescome from the Liberal party; sometimes they come from a cabinet ministers office. Its both a Liberal party slogan and an Ontario government slogan. Expect to hear it constantly.

Its a clear attempt to exploit the concerns over fake news, and the stream of lies coming from the White House.Mediaorganizations are fighting off attacks on their credibility, Facebook is attemptingto flag fake stories and civic institutions everywhere are grappling with the dwindlingeffectiveness of fact-based arguments. Its a very real problem.

So now the Ontario Liberals, and by extension the government, are declaring themselves the championsof facts. You can anticipate how this is turning out. They do indeed catch some incorrect claims, but they dont stop there. No, everything must fit the message. So we get dubiouspolitical spin dressed up as fact-checking.

Heres a fact check they sent out the other day. The PCs called cap-and-trade, which is expected to raise $1.9 billion a year in new government revenue, a cash grab. Fact: Wrong again, the Liberals wrote. Every dollar generated through cap and trade will be deposited in a dedicated account and reinvested into green projects. (It goes on to tell us how great the projects are.)

Actual fact: Many of those projects were already in the works, but are now being funded from this new revenue stream. Ontario is not off-setting carbon pricing revenue with tax breaks, as British Columbia is. Ontario is grabbing the cash and spending it on stuff. Whatever you think of these projects, it is not factually wrong to call the funding mechanism a cash grab.

At a time when the U.S. presidentis shamelessly using his office to spread conspiracy theories and insult those trying to respondwith reason, we really dont need the Ontario government further degrading the meaning of a fact and adding to the atmosphere of cynicism.

And theLiberals have already demonstrated how they really feel about having to scrupulously stick to facts. We used to have a law passed by Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty in 2004 that forced taxpayer-funded government advertising to only be used for public service information campaigns. The auditor general couldhalt government ads whose primary purpose was obviously self-promotion of the governing party.

Wynnes Liberals gutted that law in the spring of 2015. They didnt want ads filled withdry facts; they wanted ads that sold their message to voters. And now we have a blitz of taxpayer-funded advertising promoting Wynnes new plan to reduce hydro rates. For the Liberals, as with all political parties, a fact is only worth mentioning when it makes them look good.

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Large billboards featuring black and white images of prime minister Malcolm Turnbull alongside One Nation leader Pauline Hanson form the basis of the scare campaign in ethnically diverse, marginal seats against changes to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

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A broad coalition of groups, including leaders from Indigenous, Jewish, Indian, Greek, Chinese, Arab and Armenian communities, penned a joint letter to Turnbull saying the changes could give a free pass to racial abuse.

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Hanson: I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians / record scratch / we are in danger of being swamped by Muslims.

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Racism is real. It affects our communities every day - at school, at work, in the streets.

It affects our ability to get work. It will affect our childrens futures.

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Dangerous racism is growing in Australia. Weve worked hard to build lives here. Our children shouldnt suffer worse hardships than we did.

Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals have not stood up to Pauline Hanson and One Nation.

Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals are trying to change the laws that protect us from racist abuse.

Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals do not care about the safety and security of our families and our communities.

We need leaders to stand up to racism, not to encourage it.

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Whoever the terrorist turns out to be he knew exactly what he was doing. The signal he sent out to the British people (and all the tourists who have ever visited Britain or are planning to visit Britain) was a very clear one: if we can get you here we can get you anywhere.

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The killings happened beneath one of the worlds most famous landmarks: the tower of Big Ben overlooking Westminster Bridge and Parliament Square.

How many of us have not walked beneath it and mused nervously what a prime terrorist target it would be?

Then, probably, we will have corrected ourselves: No, theyd never try it here. Too many police. Too obvious.

Well, sorry. But they just did.

And now, as per usual on these occasions, the bien-pensant twonks on Twitter are seizing the opportunity to virtue-signal and dodge the issue by pretending its all about something else and nothing to do with the Religion of Peace (TM).

And now, look, heres the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, the guy who once called moderate Muslims Uncle Toms come to reassure us with his consoling message.

Oh they wont, will they? Well if they wont they are bloody stupid.

Of course, theyre cowed. Theyd be mad not to be cowed. Currently, they inhabit a culture in which the entire apparatus of authority the police, the schools, the universities, the social services, local government, the media, the politicians, the Mayor of London is bent on denyingsomething everyone knows to be true but which you cant mention aloud without fear of being accused of racism or Islamophobia or insensitivity.

Theres a significant minority of our population which has no interest in integrating with our culture. And which would either quite happily kill us or applaud quietly (or not-so-quietly) when it happens because, hey, were not humans were just kufar.

Western liberal values are being pushed to the limit. One day, theyre going to reach breaking point.

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There is, in some precincts on the left, an earnest attempt to understand Trump voters, those strange creatures that are standing by their man, and figure out how the Democrats might win them back.

During the campaign I talked about Donald Democrats and how the billionaires appeal to working-class folks might help him win the election, as he did in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The Dems used to be the party of the working class, but Trump made a connection that the party of global trade deals and climate change failed to forge.

Democrats often sound patronizing when speaking of Trump votersIts hard to win over voters whom youre insulting, New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote last month.

But now theres a counterargument emerging about Trump voters, which can be summarized thusly: Screw em.

This mad-as-hell view has been galvanized by reports that many Trump voters may lose their health insurance if the House version of ObamaCare repeal passes. The liberal gloaters say it serves them right.

From this perspective, those voters are too dumb to vote in their own economic self-interest and theyre probably gone for good. So its better to energize the Bernie Sanders base than to struggle to understand why many blue-collar Americans feel alienated from the Obama/Clinton party.

Frank Rich, the former Times columnist now with New York magazine, makes this argument in ridiculing what he calls Hillbilly Chic.

He questions whether pandering to Trump voters is another counterproductive detour into liberal guilt, self-flagellation, and political correctness. Rather than feeling everyones pain, might the time have at last come for Democrats to weaponize their anger instead of swallowing it?

Rich admits that the party is a wreck, with no power and most of its leaders of Social Security age. But he sees Trump voters as basically synonymous with the GOP:

That makes it all the more a fools errand for Democrats to fudge or abandon their own values to cater to the white-identity politics of the hard-core, often self-sabotaging Trump voters who helped drive the country into a ditch on Election Day. If we are free to loathe Trump, we are free to loathe his most loyal voters, who have put the rest of us at risk.

Sounds like Frank is weaponizing his own anger.

I just dont get the loathing, unless you subscribe to the view that anyone who supports Trump is by definition odious. If the Democrats write off everyone who backed Trump, even if it was because they didnt trust Hillary, arent they making it harder to put together an electoral majority of liberals and minorities?

Salon takes a different tack with a critical piece titled The Smug Style in American Politics. (There are photos of Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann, though they have nothing to do with the article.)

The story by Conor Lynch says the Democratic view is of large numbers of American people voting against their apparent interests because of their ignorance and cultural backwardness.

After decades of watching millions of Americans vote for right-wing charlatans who advocated economic policies that serve the wealthy and screw everyone else, some liberals have basically given up on appealing to these perceived yokels, who seem to care more about criminalizing abortion and hoarding guns than obtaining health are and decent wages. They are dumb, credulous and often intolerant; so why should we progressive, rational, forward-thinking liberals sympathize or try to reason with them? Let them lose their health care; maybe theyll learn something this time around (though we all know they wont).

Lynch concludes that both parties have failed these voters and that cheering as people lose their health insurance may not be the best way to go about this.

Ya think?

We live in a divided country. And when Barack Obama won in 2008, some of those who opposed him tried to marginalize him and vowed to take our country back.

Do some in Obamas party want to do the same thing now? Blame not just the Republican president but the 60 million people who put him in the White House? Isnt that a big, well, smug?

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Sean Hannity was trying to contain an increasingly screechy debate about the Trump family on a recent episode of his eponymous Fox News show. His two guests were discussing the protests at a New York preschool attended by PresidentTrumps grandson. If I went after the Obama kids, I would probably have groups of people wanting me fired, Hannity said. Wait a minute

But red hot conservative rabble-rouser Tomi Lahren from TheBlaze wouldnt let it rest. Sean, if you go after Beyonc, youll have groups of people wanting you fired, Lahren told Hannity. Lets be honest.

Jessica Tarlov, one of a rotating cast of liberals who regularly appears on Hannity, punched back harder: Whats your problem with Beyonc?

You might not recognize Tarlovs name, but if you watch enough Fox News, youve seen her. Shes the lefty liberal the networks fans love to hatein a fond way, she insiststen times a week: as a fixture on the networks Saturday lineupand the millennial brunette in the Hollywood Squares of Fox panel programming.

Which also means Tarlov isone of the few liberal voices reliably in the Presidents ear. Inthe same moment scandal has demanded a Fox leadership upheaval, Trumps Twitter-dialoguing with what he watches has caused even more viewers to tunein. Ratings are through the roof, like epic, Tarlov says.Fox News continues to bethe most-watched cable network in America, which means Tarlov is one of Americas most-watched villains.

When I meet her at the Hay-Adams Hotel, Tarlov iswearing the same dark denim dress and the same high Fox hair she was in 25 minutes ago when she was talking about the Republican healthcare proposal on air. (I would never go on a first date coming straight from Fox, because its never going to look like this again.) The camera, though, missed the little touches. Her earrings in the shape of small sunglasses, the candy-covered Swatch she wears, her Adidas hi-topsunder the table.

Tarlov, 33, has been popping up on Fox for about two years now, long enough to see the chyron below her name change from Democratic Strategist to Senior Director of Market Research for Bustle, a news and lifestylesite catering to women. It was her old boss from her consulting days, fellow Fox contributor and Bloomberg pollster Doug Schoen, who emailed buddies at Newsmax and CNBC about booking his minion on their shows. Tarlovs first at-bat was a 2013 segment withKristen Soltis Anderson.Eventually, Fox called and kept calling.

Much to the chagrin of the Fox viewer, she says. You again? Yeah. Me again.

Despite growing up in Tribecasurrounded by show businessfather Mark is a film producer, momJudy Robertsis a writerTarlov didnt grow up wanting to be on camera. My sister is the TV person in the family, she says of younger sisterMolly, an actress fromthe MTV series Awkward. Tarlov took theacademic path instead: undergrad at leafy Bryn Mawr College, followed-up by a public policy degree from the London School of Economics. It was through Schoen, who Tarlov had met through her grandparents years earlier, that she ended up running social media for Boris Johnsons re-election campaign for mayor of London.

He has an appeal to people like nothing youve ever seen, very similar to how cultish people got about Trump, Tarlov says of Johnson, who is now the UKs foreign secretary. It was weird. Hed do something really embarrassing andhed get a poll bump. He could survive an Access Hollywood tape, too.

Tarlov sees her role, and the role of other longtime liberals at Fox like Juan Williams and Julie Roginsky, as a negotiation. To make information that the audience and even your co-panelists dont want to hear palatable and maybe also see the rightness in it is the trick, she says. You cant take yourself so seriously that youre like a harpy, just like yelling all the time. You cant do any of that.

Her formula is simple: smile when the anchor says your name, giggle or laugh when you can, and data, data, data. I am acutely aware of the fact that Im a solo rider, she says. If Im not prepared, I will lose in spectacular fashion. There are also the choices most viewers will never know about, like the decision to forego the Doctor that befits the Ph.D. she received at LSE.

I thought it was a little Doogie Howser, she says. I didnt want to fiteven though I guess I dosome liberal, elitist, ivory tower persona thats been created.

But even under all that conservative camouflage, haters find a way. After a Tucker Carlson Tonight segment on fake news, radio host and conspiracy theoristAlex Jones called her the 8-foot arrogant Brunhilda. After asecond face-off with Lahren, again on Hannity, conservative web host Mark Dice called her a liberal lunatic with fewer Twitter followers than Glad (shes since overtaken the best-selling trash bags). Her Twitter feed is a sea of nastiness, she says, and shes right. Viewers seem to hate her vocal fry as much as they hate her politics.

But there are conservatives who have watched me go from you-are-super-scared-to-be-on-TV to as comfortable as I am now who will defend me if they see people going after me, she notices, online and in real life.

Shes a level-headed liberal and opposition voice, Lahren says on the afternoonafter their thirdshowdown in as many weeks. When Hannity watched the two women bonding in the green room back in February, says Lahren, The first thing he said to us was Remember, you guys have to fight in a minute.

Viewers are responding to the segments between her and Tarlov, Lahren thinks, because theyre playful, but not a catfight. Tarlov is adept at deflecting unanswerable questionswith humor (A lot of handbags, she responded when Tucker Carlson asked where democratic consultants were stashing money after the election)and smart enough to get in on the jokes people tell at her expense. She callsthe video Mark Dice made about herreally mean, but its really funny. To promote an upcoming podcast appearance, Tarlov quipped: If my voice annoys you, thisll be rough.

Trickier to throw off course, though, are her liberal detractors. While Tarlovcan be a relentless advocate for whatshe calls the liberal way of life (and once asked Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson to explain what she meant by family values 7 times in 60seconds), there are those who think thatDemocrats who go on Fox are sellouts or shills.Tarlov lands an answer that sounds somewhere between a reason and a rationalization.

They think if youre there, you must be like Joe Manchin, like a faux kind of Democrat, which the self-described Hillary-hawkis not. I think it is so much more valuable to be a strong voice for liberalism in that environment than to potentially risk having someone else come on, because that segment is going to get filmed.

Its an interesting time to be atFox. The networks political ascendancy has been marred by whats happened within the organization since last summer, when former hosts Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, among many others, publicly accused the channels founder,Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment.

Tarlov, who learned about the allegations when everyone else did, says she heard no warning grumblings. And while she never had any issue herself,shes bullish about the new regime.I know how great Bill Shine and Suzanne Scott are now, who are at the helm of it, and [the owners] theMurdochs, as well, you know they run a ton of successful companies, she says. And the sons its widelyyou know, theyre more liberal than Rupert Murdoch or than the organization maybe was run before.

So what does it feels like to be a resident liberalon Fox right now, knowingthat Donald Trumpis watching each night, maybe in his bathrobe?He doesnt own a bathrobe, Tarlov deadpans, except all the bathrobes hes been photographed in.

But then she gets serious: It feels really special and such a unique opportunity. Because when President Obama was president, he wasnt ever watching Fox News.

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Neil Gorsuch's nomination is a top concern for tens of millions of Americans, said Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, which is leading the anti-Gorsuch coalition. | John Shinkle/POLITICO

As Neil Gorsuch faces a grilling in the Senate Judiciary Committee later Tuesday, liberal groups mobilizing against him are accelerating the pressure against Democratic senators with a new digital ad campaign urging them to filibuster the Supreme Court nominee.

The Peoples Defense, a coalition of more than a dozen progressive organizations, is launching the six-figure digital ad campaign on Tuesday. An example of one ad, aimed at Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), calls President Donald Trumps first Supreme Court nominee unfit for the vacancy and urges people to flood Caseys office with phone calls against Gorsuchs nomination.

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Neil Gorsuch's nomination is a top concern for tens of millions of Americans, said Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, which is leading the anti-Gorsuch coalition. After the opening of the hearings today, Senate Democrats should be clear that those Americans are depending on them to not just oppose Neil Gorsuch and the danger he poses, but to filibuster his nomination.

Other progressive groups involved in the campaign include Indivisible, American Federation of Teachers, Center for American Progress Action Fund, CREDO Action, End Citizens United, EveryVoice, MoveOn.org Civic Action, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Service Employees International Union and Stand Up America. The umbrella group has been increasingly vocal about their frustration with Senate Democrats, who they say have not fought hard enough against Gorsuch's nomination.

The first of Gorsuch's two days of questioning in the Senate Judiciary Committee starts at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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What the SNP has also succeeded in conveying, though, despite having been in power in Scotland for ten years, is a sense of being anti-establishment. As Alex Salmond, its former leader, told me, We challenged the establishment in Scotland, which was the Labour Party, and the establishment in Westminster, which was often the Tory Party, and that defined the SNPs role.

Most centre-right and centre-left parties have been the establishment, though, for so many decades that voters are increasingly bored and angry with them. Its partly a matter of style. People cant bear the buttoned-up, stick-to-the-message-at-all-costs method of talking that was invented by New Labour, tested to its limits by Labour leadership candidates Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, and finally drove people to distraction with Hillary Clinton. To mangle Yeats, it seems to voters that the centre lacks all conviction while the populists are full of passionate intensity.

As Osborne put it to me, When President Trump tweets, probably at two or three in the morning, you may look at the tweet and think thats a pretty odd thing for the President of the United States to say, but you dont doubt that hes done it, whereas when Hillary Clinton tweets, everyone goes, "Well, that probably went through seven committees and is signed off by someones that not even her.

So mainstream politicians need to capture the authenticity and candour beloved by populists of the right and left. But they also need somehow to reinvent themselves, ideally outside the traditional party system. Thats what Emmanuel Macron is doing so successfully in France. His policies are avowedly centrist, but he has created his own party, En Marche!, and may reach a run-off against Le Pen in which no candidate from a mainstream party is represented.

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Im a liberal-arts major, and it feels like theres no clear line of work for me to pursue. How can I use my degree to get a job when I graduate?

The older I get, the more fiercely I defend unduly maligned liberal arts majors. Im the proud recipient of an English degree. Some people thought that studying literature was an endearing quirk, not a career path, but it led me to a fulfilling career in journalism.

Now that Im out in the real world, Ive seen how desperate companies are for good writers, communicators and researchers. According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers spring 2016 survey, employers rated critical thinking, professionalism and teamwork as the most important career-readiness traits of college graduates all achievable through liberal arts studies.

Its true that PayScales list of bachelor degrees with high income potential is dominated by science and engineering. But a humanities background can give you the foundation to solve problems, lead and collaborate with others, which can help you rise through the ranks in any industry. You never know where your liberal arts background may take you. Late-night talk show host Conan OBrien majored in history and literature. Howard Schultz, chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, majored in communications.

Follow these steps to gain confidence in your formidable knowledge, relay it to employers and land a job you love.

Liberal arts students often feel overwhelmed by all the career directions they can go, says Karyn McCoy, assistant vice president of DePaul Universitys Career Center in Chicago. If youre a political science major, for instance, you could pursue law, journalism, business, international relations, academia the list goes on.

Before you graduate, home in on what excites you by volunteering, working part time, joining extracurricular clubs and taking on internships. Youll build additional skills that can make you more marketable with employers. My experiences as an intern at nonprofit legal organizations helped me get my first job as a paralegal.

In many cases in job interviews, its those other applied experiences that students have had that help them stand out, says Paul Timmins, director of career services for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Use tools such as the O*NET Interest Profiler, sponsored by the Labor Department, to explore potential occupations based on the types of tasks and job-related activities that most interest you. You also can ask your colleges alumni relations director to put you in touch with alumni with your degree. Set up a phone call or brief coffee meeting to discuss how they translated their liberal arts background into a successful career.

It takes practice to assess exactly how your major has prepared you for the workplace.

Students dont necessarily know how to identify the skills that theyre gaining or to talk about them in a way that sells them to an employer, McCoy says.

Brainstorm with your colleges career services department, a trusted professor or an internship supervisor about the transferable skills you can bring to the workplace. McCoy also recommends scrutinizing a few job descriptions that interest you, then writing down an experience showing how you meet each qualification.

If the employer wants someone who can take initiative, for instance, youd share in a cover letter or during an interview your experience at forming an anthropology study group. It would be even better if you could report a measurable positive result, such as a classwide increase in test scores. Is the company looking for a strong collaborator? Your work on a team that curated the new on-campus museum exhibit would be relevant.

Remember, too, that your first job is a single rung on your career ladder, McCoy says. You can prepare incessantly and still find youd rather work in a different company or industry that better fits your passions or lifestyle.

Each step is going to give you something, whether its a specific skill or an insight that says, OK, this definitely isnt it.

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CANADIAN NEWS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Theres only one more sleep until the federal budget (can you tell were excited?) and sources tell The Globe that two controversial, much-talked-about measures will not appear in this weeks fiscal plan: a sell-off of Canadas airports and an increase in the capital-gains tax -- even if Charles Sousa wants it.

Who is the man behind the budget? Gregarious finance ministers like Paul Martin and Jim Flaherty have loomed over Parliament Hill in recent decades, but so far Bill Morneaus technocratic persona has been outshined by his bosss charisma.

Citing a Globe investigation, MPs on the Status of Women committee say Statistics Canada needs to resume tracking police dismissals of sexual-assault cases.

Senator Don Meredith is hiring a new lawyer.

The inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women says they have few cases on file because the information they were given by the government wasnt particularly helpful.

The government will stop producing cardboard cutouts of Justin Trudeau.

The Liberals are in no rush to fix Access to Information laws after all.

The Anglican Church of Canada has blasted Senator Lynn Beyak for talking about the good in residential schools.

And The Globe and Mail has received 19 nominations for National Newspaper Awards, including two of the three finalists in Politics: Steven Chase in Ottawa for his coverage of Canadas controversial arms sales to Saudi Arabia (which already received an award from Amnesty International) and a team of Globe reporters for their coverage of cash for access political fundraisers in Ottawa, British Columbia and Ontario.

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U.S. NEWS YOU SHOULD KNOW

FBI Director James Comey confirmed that an investigation is looking into whether U.S. President Donald Trump and the Kremlin colluded during the election campaign and has been since July of 2016. Mr. Comey also mentioned that both parties were hacked during the campaign but that only information about Democrats was released because Russia wanted to hurt her, help him. NSA Director Mike Rogers noted that the level of hacking conducted by Russia was unprecedented.

The White House worked to contain the fallout from the explosive hearings. In the daily press briefing Press Secretary Sean Spicer said former campaign manager Paul Manafort was part of the Trump team for a very limited time in a very limited role. He also said that former national security adviser and adviser to the campaign Michael Flynn was a volunteer. Both had repeated contacts with the Russian government throughout the campaign.

Nomination hearings continue for Mr. Trumps Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch today in Washington. Democrats are facing grassroots pressure to oppose Mr. Gorsuch at all costs, much in the way that Republicans stonewalled Merrick Garland in a breach of longstanding precedent.

There are cabinet secretaries, and then there are the Trump-picked political aides inside their departments whose responsibility it is to monitor cabinet members loyalty to the White House.

And Ivanka Trump will be getting an office in the West Wing, security clearance and official communications devices. She will also continue to advise the president and broaden her portfolio. Despite this, the Trump team is insisting that shell play no official role and have no official title as anti-nepotism laws prevent the hiring of family members as White House employees.

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More than 90 per cent of sexual assault victims never report the incident to police. Of those who do, many are not taken seriously. The Globe and Mail interviewed dozens of women who reported the crimes, and they explain some troubling experiences dealing with the justice system.

WHAT EVERYONES TALKING ABOUT

Campbell Clark (The Globe and Mail): Mr. Morneaus task is to deliver a budget for economically uncertain times. His problem is that the Liberal government is facing a big lump of insecurity, too, and had promised not to borrow much more, so it doesnt have a ton of new money to throw at Canadians worries. But reassurance seems to be what Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus government wants this budget to be about.

Munir Sheikh (The Globe and Mail): Suppose a budget told you that increased spending on a particular objective would raise GDP a lot more than any economic cost of deficit financing. Should you undertake that spending regardless of the debt-to-GDP ratio? I would assume the answer is yes (ignoring the rearranging of the budget items). Alternatively, assume that this spending was bad for the economy, but we have a low debt-to-GDP ratio. Should we proceed with it? I assume the answer is no. Then what is the value of a debt-to-GDP ratio?

Gordon Harris (Vancouver Sun): But selling ports and airports wouldnt recover value from facilities we no longer need. It would privatize assets that are still essential, and will remain so.

Stephen Gordon (National Post): If the pre-budget messaging is anything to go by, the focus of the 2017 budget will be innovation and economic growth, with a generous dollop of verbiage about the middle class. But, to the extent that these measures involve new spending, the middle class isnt likely to see much of it. The people who will benefit directly from new spending on innovation are likely to be well-educated and probably already making a decent living the sort of people who might have done pretty well from the tax cut on upper-middle-class incomes.

Andrew MacDougall (The Globe and Mail): The poor-but-not-decimating 2015 election result [for the Conservatives] gave way to a vibrant 2016 policy convention. Rona Ambrose has done an excellent job of holding Justin Trudeaus government to account in the House of Commons. This week the Liberals are widely expected to table a second budget full of monster deficits. It should be open season for Conservative leadership hopefuls, not open season on them.

Ezra Klein (Vox): Republican leaders have moved this bill as fast as possible, with as little information as possible, and with no evident plan for what will happen if the bill actually becomes law and wreaks havoc in peoples lives. This is not the health reform package Donald Trump promised his voters, its not the health reform package conservative policy experts recommended to House Republicans, and its not the health reform package that polling shows people want.

Written by Chris Hannay and Mayaz Alam.

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