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  • Ignored: Poor Whites

    Ignored: Poor Whites0

    From the Miami Herald’s reporter Leonard Pitts, Jr. comes this revelation: “As it turns out, our deeply racialized view of poverty bears no resemblance to reality. Though it’s true that African Americans are disproportionately likely to live below the poverty line, it is also true that the vast majority of those in poverty are white:

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  • Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America

    Ignore the Headlines: Community Is Still Alive in America1

    Laid up by some broken ribs, I recently spent some of my evenings watching a Hallmark series, “Cedar Cove.” (Yes, you read that correctly: Hallmark. Everybody chuckle, and then we’ll move along.) I don’t own a television or subscribe to any online movie outfits, but a DVD featuring Andie MacDowell, an actress I admire, caught

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  • IG’s Report Is Just Another Opportunity for Partisan Cherry-Picking

    IG’s Report Is Just Another Opportunity for Partisan Cherry-Picking0

    Our two national parties had great expectations about the findings of the Department of Justice’s Inspector General concerning the surveillance operation carried out by the FBI against Donald Trump’s campaign staff. What came out of this newly released report won’t fully satisfy either side. The Democrats were hoping that Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report would

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  • If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One

    If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One1

    “I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.”  When deciding how his own children would be educated, Musk rejected traditional schooling and created his own project-based microschool, Ad Astra, in 2014, on his SpaceX campus. “The kids really love going to school,” said

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  • If You’re Going to Confront Fascists, Do it Jeffrey Tucker-Style (Video)

    If You’re Going to Confront Fascists, Do it Jeffrey Tucker-Style (Video)0

    If nothing else, the last week has taught the West how not to respond to white nationalism. The “Unite the Right” conference in Charlottesville touched off rounds of violence that culminated with a white supremacist, 20-year-old James Fields Jr., allegedly driving a car into a crowd and killing Heather Heyer, 32. Attorney General Jeff Sessions

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  • If You’re Going Through Hell: Some Thoughts

    If You’re Going Through Hell: Some Thoughts2

    By hell, I mean neither a trivial bad-hair day nor that bleak circle of hell reserved to the clinically depressed, a condition treated these days with medication and counseling. No—by hell I intend that protracted war in which you are a lone soldier and the forces arrayed against you are as dark and insidious as

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