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  • The Best Anti-Fascist Strategy? Let them Speak.

    The Best Anti-Fascist Strategy? Let them Speak.0

    While the country is still reeling from shocking images of the violence in Charlottesville, VA last weekend, CNN reports the so-called “Alt Right” is planning nine events for this weekend, including a “free speech rally” in Boston. As expected, counter-protests are being planned, although local police in most areas are planning to take measures to

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  • The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today

    The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today0

    An older and troubling yet uplifting inside story of an abandoned assisted living home comes from NPR’s StoryCorps: “When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go. The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except

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  • The Berkeley Battles Are a Sign of Things to Come

    The Berkeley Battles Are a Sign of Things to Come0

    Just how close are we to repeating the political violence of interwar Germany? How bad is it, and how bad can it get? ??Populist-right demonstrators and radical-left protesters clashed in Berkeley, California yesterday. The belligerents used such weapons as fists, feet, rocks, pepper spray, smoke bombs, barricades, and a trash dumpster/battering ram. There was one

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  • The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting

    The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting1

    I consider myself a scholarly expert on the Berenstain Bears. Not because I’ve actually written any scholarly works on the series of books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, but just because I’m an academic and I have read and reread dozens of Berenstain books for more than a decade with first one daughter and now

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  • The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man

    The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man4

    Little boys are sexist. At least, that’s what recent headlines want us to believe. A new study hit newsstands the other day, claiming that young children, boys especially, exhibit indicators of sexism even into early middle school. This sexism, however, is not likely to be aggressive, mean-spirited behavior toward females. In fact, it could be

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  • The Benefits of Plunging Public Kindergarten Enrollment Rates

    The Benefits of Plunging Public Kindergarten Enrollment Rates0

    Public school enrollment has consistently declined across most states this academic year, and there are new signs that the trend will continue this fall. On Thursday, New York City’s education department reported that kindergarten applications for the 2021/2022 school year dropped 12 percent, from 63,000 to under 55,500 applications. Overall New York City kindergarten enrollment

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