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  • What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?

    What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?0

    I did a double take reading a headline on The Conversation the other day. It appears that pets plus Halloween makes for a lucrative enterprise: Americans are expected to spend US $8.8 billion on candy, costumes and decorations this year – or $86 for every person who plans to celebrate. That includes a half a

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  • What’s Behind the Exodus of Black Students from Public Schools?

    What’s Behind the Exodus of Black Students from Public Schools?0

    For a number of years, public education has been of utmost importance to those in the black community. This is partially because black access to equal public education was a hard-won victory procured by the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. But lately, black families appear to be questioning whether public schooling is

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  • What’s Behind the ‘Sex Recession’?

    What’s Behind the ‘Sex Recession’?0

    In spite of the fact that we are living today in a sex-saturated cultural environment, recent studies surprisingly report that sexual relations between men and women are declining. “In 2018, the share of Americans who said they didn’t have sex for an entire year was the highest on record.” This statistic includes both single individuals and

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  • What’s America To Do With a Weaponized Intelligence Community?

    What’s America To Do With a Weaponized Intelligence Community?6

    The Intelligence Community of the United States of America has been weaponized against the incumbent leader’s political opposition, having even turned the spy agencies of our closest allies against the leading Republican candidate. This is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn if a bombshell report released last week is accurate. Relying on “multiple credible witnesses,”

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  • What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains

    What’s a Luddite? An Expert on Technology and Society Explains0

    The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a thriving textile industry that depended on manual knitting frames and a skilled workforce to create cloth and garments out of cotton and wool. But as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, steam-powered mills threatened the livelihood of thousands of artisanal textile workers.

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  • What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?

    What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?0

    We are so used to the idea that, with a college degree and a packet of contraceptive pills, women are invincible, we are still trying to get our 21st century heads around the #MeToo phenomenon. Over the past year, countless women working in a variety of professions around the world have revealed that the price of

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