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  • Apprehensions at US-Mexico Border Reach 40-Year Low

    Apprehensions at US-Mexico Border Reach 40-Year Low0

    The number of Mexican migrants seized near the U.S. border plummeted in 2015, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. Via Pew: Apprehensions of Mexican migrants declined to near-historic lows last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2015, according to data released earlier in the year by the U.S. Border Patrol. (U.S. border

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  • Applying the Greene Standard to Rev. Sharpton

    Applying the Greene Standard to Rev. Sharpton0

    Because of offensive tweets posted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., before she won office, House Democrats joined by 11 Republicans voted to strip her of her committee assignments. If this is the new standard, can we apply this to the Rev. Al Sharpton, aka a Democratic “kingmaker,” whose support was solicited by every major

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  • Applying ‘Vigor Without Venom’ in Our Interactions With Others

    Applying ‘Vigor Without Venom’ in Our Interactions With Others0

    In mid-December, an article I wrote for another publication on the story behind “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” prompted an email from a reader disputing some of my facts. His source was Wikipedia, which my editors at that publication had told me to avoid. My source, which included a link, clashed with his information. At any

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  • Appeals Court Says Trans Students May Use Restroom of Choice

    Appeals Court Says Trans Students May Use Restroom of Choice0

    A federal court decided last week that schools can’t ban students from using the restroom that matches their desired gender identity, in what BuzzFeed News called “a significant legal win for transgender rights.” The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit comes five years after Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester

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  • Appeals Court Rules Bakers Must Pay $135,000 for Not Making Wedding Cake

    Appeals Court Rules Bakers Must Pay $135,000 for Not Making Wedding Cake0

    A husband-and-wife baking team must pay a $135,000 fine for declining to make a cake for the wedding of two women, Oregon’s second-highest court has ruled. A three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a decision by a state agency that led to the fine and forced Aaron and Melissa Klein

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  • Apollo’s Triumph—and Public Schooling’s Tragedy

    Apollo’s Triumph—and Public Schooling’s Tragedy0

    This past weekend the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was, for those too young to recall, the first time any nation put humans on an alien world. It was an amazing feat of engineering, ingenuity, and courage. And it happened just eight years and 56 days after President

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