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The Culture-defining Power of 'The Paper'
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 15, 2025
We all want the best for our kids. Because of this desire, it’s quite discouraging to see when efforts to boost progress in reading, math, and other subjects flatline in schools across the country, as the chart below shows. On the other hand, this perpetual stagnation causes us to sit up and notice when a
READ MOREThe same-sex marriage debate is about to heat up in Australia, and for both sides the temptation to embrace fear and hate will be fierce. Most of us have enemies, even if we don’t recognise it. Most of us hate someone, or some group of people, even if we won’t admit it to ourselves. Hate
READ MOREHollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was fired by the Weinstein Company over the weekend amid a scandal that may go down as one of the worst in history. The New York Times reported that the Hollywood mogul from Queens, N.Y., had been accused of sexual harassment by no fewer than eight women. The women tended to
READ MOREAs many recognize, homeschooling has been booming in recent years and promises to keep growing. The most recent numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) hail from 2012 and suggest that 1.8 million children are now educated at home. Compared to public school students, studies suggest that homeschoolers perform up to 30 percentile
READ MORE1. True or False: COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the U.S. False. It’s not even close. As of July 25, the most recent date for which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data is available, there were 135,579 deaths related to the contagion, less than 10 percent of the more than
READ MOREIt’s a dilemma faced by many of us when pulling up to the light at an off-ramp: Do we or do we not give money to the person with a sign? For some, it’s a commendable act of charity to give the professedly homeless or down-on-their-luck person some money, no judgments or questions asked. Others,
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