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  • Effort to Abandon Electoral College Gains Steam. Here’s What It Would Ruin for America.

    Effort to Abandon Electoral College Gains Steam. Here’s What It Would Ruin for America.0

    Colorado is joining a list of states attempting to overturn the way Americans have selected their presidents for over two centuries. The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill to join an interstate effort called the “interstate compact,” to attempt to sidestep the Electoral College system defined by the Constitution. Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, called

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  • Effeminacy Is Not Working for the Christian Church

    Effeminacy Is Not Working for the Christian Church0

    Sitting in a pew last summer, waiting for a small funeral service to start, I saw a young woman walk to the podium and begin to speak. To my surprise, she introduced herself as the minister who would be conducting the service, and then she began to lead those gathered to remember the departed through

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  • Eerie: Rome’s ‘Chief Exorcist’ Dishes on Exorcisms

    Eerie: Rome’s ‘Chief Exorcist’ Dishes on Exorcisms0

    • July 15, 2016

    Even in today’s more secular society—or perhaps because we live in a secular society—the Catholic rite of exorcism still manages to attract a good amount of intrigue and curiosity. Witness, for instance, the success of the movie The Exorcist (1973), which was one of the most profitable horror movies of all time. Catholic priest Fr.

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  • Edward Snowden Welcomes Trump Press Secretary with Blistering Tweet

    Edward Snowden Welcomes Trump Press Secretary with Blistering Tweet0

    If you thought Edward Snowden was going to play nice with the Trump White House in hopes of receiving a pardon, you were sorely mistaken. In case you missed it, the new White House is finding itself on the losing end of a petty squabble with the press regarding the size of, ahem, Trump’s inauguration

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  • Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon

    Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon0

    The global spotlight was cast upon Edward Snowden in 2013 after he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance programs. Working with The Guardian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Snowden famously (or infamously, depending on one’s point of view) revealed that the NSA was illegally gathering information on tens

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  • Educator: Young Children Need Conversation, Not Preschool

    Educator: Young Children Need Conversation, Not Preschool3

    Advocating for state-funded preschool is still a popular political move, as a potential candidate for the New Jersey governorship demonstrated earlier this week. But if early childhood educator Erika Christakis is right, politicians may want to put a hold on the preschool push. Writing in the January/February issue of The Atlantic, Christakis reinforces the idea

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