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  • A Missing Link: Our Border Catastrophe and the Failures of Corporate Media

    A Missing Link: Our Border Catastrophe and the Failures of Corporate Media2

    Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose, Why, how and when, doe many things disclose. — The Arte of Rhetorique, 1560 In “The Five Ws (and H) of Journalism,” Richard Nordquist notes that, in the above lines, English rhetorician Thomas Wilson devised the formula that later became standard in journalism. “Who,” “What,”

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  • A Million Students Are Marching Against Guns. My Daughter Enrolled in a Trauma Casualty Training Class.

    A Million Students Are Marching Against Guns. My Daughter Enrolled in a Trauma Casualty Training Class.0

    Thousands of students walked out of their classes to protest congressional inaction on gun control earlier this month. As marches continue across the country, organizers estimate that more than a million students will take part in the anti-gun violence rallies. Along with parents, teachers, and administrators, these young people demanded that someone (someone else, that is)

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  • A Metaphor for Life

    A Metaphor for Life0

    • August 14, 2015

    Sometimes things in life are looking great. You’ve got all your ducks in a row and then, Boom! Your life is t-boned. We’ve all been there. You feel like a failure, you feel ashamed and panicked. In reality, you are human and you will never be in complete control of your life. You’re going to

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  • A Memo From Privilege University’s Diversity Offices

    A Memo From Privilege University’s Diversity Offices0

    Dear Colleagues, A Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable day to you! The leadership team here at PU’s Diversity/Inclusion/Equity (DIE) Office is pleased that so many of you have adopted the practice of land acknowledgment in your email signatures, as demonstrated by the following model statement from a colleague: In community and solidarity, Dr. Margaret “Marge” N. Alisación, Ph. D.

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  • A Medical Dean Sees a Fishing Knot and Calls It a Hate Crime

    A Medical Dean Sees a Fishing Knot and Calls It a Hate Crime0

    What happens at the University of Michigan Medical School when an employee practices making fishing knots with surgical rope and the knot is found? The dean of the medical school, Dr. Marschall Runge, jumped to the conclusion that the knot was a noose; a hate crime had occurred: We have taken immediate action to have

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  • A Manhattan Whole Foods’ Homeless ‘Policy’ Endangers Others

    A Manhattan Whole Foods’ Homeless ‘Policy’ Endangers Others0

    The degradation of human life in major American cities astonishes and alarms. In San Francisco, the homeless defecate in the streets and supermarkets. In New York, violent attacks on orthodox Jews by a small minority of black anti-Semites seem to be almost daily occurrences. What follows is yet another astonishing story. It involves a major corporation, not “progressive” government

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