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His career brought an international spotlight to this system of racial segregation in plays that afflicted consciences and fomented activism at home and abroad.

Before examining the natural disasters that have afflicted these blowhards’ own backyards, it’s proper to note that this isn’t California’s first encounter with political shortsightedness on this majestic scale.

Then and now, elected officials were blaming immigrants for all the supposed maladies afflicting this country.

Traditionally, we approached our jobs in the press as comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

The party elites are afflicted with hubris and incompetence.