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  • Choosing Excellence Over Equitable Mediocrity

    Choosing Excellence Over Equitable Mediocrity2

    If you, like me, were a student who strove to get work in on time and took advantage of extra credit or other academic perks when offered, then you can be glad you’re past school age—especially if you live in Portland, Ore. That’s because schools in that district are beginning to implement “equitable grading practices.” Just

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  • Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns

    Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns2

    The spate of recent mass shootings is once again turning us all into experts who wax eloquent on social media. “We can’t have this anymore,” many shout. “It’s time to do something!” “Doing something,” of course, often doubles as code for gun control. But such gun control is right and good, individuals argue, because it

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  • Choosing Children Over Self-Centered Ambitions

    Choosing Children Over Self-Centered Ambitions0

    There are plenty of double-take headlines out there, and one of them showed up on my desk the other day courtesy of The Daily Beast. “Meet the People Who Won’t Have Sex Until They’re Sterilized,” the headline ran. Nonchalantly, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, the article laid out the

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  • Chloe’s Story: Puberty Blockers at 13, a Double Mastectomy at 15

    Chloe’s Story: Puberty Blockers at 13, a Double Mastectomy at 151

    The California State Assembly has been studying a bill, SB 107, to declare the state a sanctuary for minors who have been denied transgender-affirming medicine and surgery elsewhere. SB 107 would permit insurance companies, physicians, and contractors to disregard subpoenas about child custody if the child is being medically treated for gender dysphoria. It would also

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  • Chinese Propaganda Outlet Pays Millions to US Newspapers

    Chinese Propaganda Outlet Pays Millions to US Newspapers0

    One of China’s main propaganda outlets has paid American newspapers nearly $19 million for advertising and printing expenses over the past four years, according to documents filed with the Justice Department. China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6

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  • China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment

    China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment0

    Off the coast of California floats a Texas-sized island made out of garbage. It’s comprised almost entirely of humanity’s plastic waste. Where did this garbage mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean came from? Plastic dumping. Plastic dumping is the practice of simply throwing away waste into rivers or lakes which eventually lead out into the

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