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A variety of news outlets have reported the rapidly declining SAT scores of the nation’s high school students. Bloomberg went so far as to use the headline: “Students Bombed the SAT This Year…” The charts provided by Bloomberg via The College Board are compelling and tell a much larger story of what has (or hasn’t)
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If you defend bad journalism and call for the banning of good journalists, you probably don’t belong in journalism. But Sarah Jeong did that and was rewarded for it. She has been hired by the New York Times to be a member of its editorial board, despite a long history of racist tweets calling white
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British researchers have claimed success for their tips and techniques to minimize weight gain over Christmas. In a scheme worthy of Ebenezer Scrooge, says the Telegraph, they have issued “a list of the exercise needed to work off festive treats in the hope that revelers will think twice about over-indulging this Christmas.” The team at
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Bernie is finally out. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it was sometimes easy to forget that Bernie Sanders was still in, or that there was a Democratic Party primary race in the works at all. Following his withdrawal from the race earlier Wednesday, Bernie Sanders fans took to Twitter, using the hashtag #NotMeUs
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Newly released information shows that the New York Police Department denied thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests over a one-year timespan. The New York Police Department received a total of 2,916 detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement between July 1, 2018, and June 30 of this year, according to data first obtained by the
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The San Francisco Board of Education unanimously voted last month in favor of painting over a George Washington mural series on a school wall depicting Washington standing over a Native American’s corpse and another in the company of slaves on his Mount Vernon estate. “This is reparations,” Education Board Commissioner Mark Sanchez said in a
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