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  • Is ‘Closed for Thanksgiving’ Trending?

    Is ‘Closed for Thanksgiving’ Trending?0

    Last year, it was the small business retailers who balked at opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day. This year, it’s the largest mall in the U.S. On Wednesday morning, Mall of America officials announced that they will not participate in the Black Friday creep which has overtaken Thanksgiving in recent years. According to The Minneapolis

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  • Is ‘Antiracism’ a Grift?

    Is ‘Antiracism’ a Grift?3

    Henry Rogers was born in Queens in 1982, to middle-class parents deeply involved in civil rights activism. After completing journalism and African American Studies programs at several universities, including Temple University where he completed his Ph.D., Rogers began a career as a university lecturer, taking up various posts along the East Coast in history and

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  • Is ‘Speed Reading’ For Real?

    Is ‘Speed Reading’ For Real?0

    When I was a boy, “speed reading” was all the rage among the adults I knew—the ones who read books, that is. I envied them. Learning to read had been hard enough, but I couldn’t seem to read fast enough to allow time for other things I also wanted to do. If, as I now

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  • Is ‘Our Democracy’ Failing Our Country?

    Is ‘Our Democracy’ Failing Our Country?3

    Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.” Yet, at the First Continental Congress in 1774, 15 years before the U.S. became a nation of 13 states, Patrick Henry rose to proclaim that, “British oppression has effaced the boundaries of the several colonies; the distinctions between

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  • Is ‘More Diversity’ Really the Answer to Racial Problems?

    Is ‘More Diversity’ Really the Answer to Racial Problems?0

    With all of the racial tension lately, is diversity really the answer to our racial problems? This seems to be the solution that the San Francisco Police Department favors at a time when it is under scrutiny for racist text messages among its officers. As Paul Elias reports for the Associated Press, “San Francisco’s police

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  • Is ‘Monkey This Up’ A Racial Slur?

    Is ‘Monkey This Up’ A Racial Slur?0

    Activists are calling a gubernatorial candidate racist for using the term “monkey this up.” The press is spreading these charges while failing to reveal that others have used this phrase in the same way: as a synonym for “mess things up.” After winning the Republican primary for governor of Florida, Congressman Ron DeSantis was asked

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