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Anti-ICE Riots and the 'Sin of Empathy'
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
- June 20, 2025
Both minorities and poor and lower-middle-class whites agree race relations are getting worse, but they disagree whether the solution is to talk more or less about race. They were divided by the meaning of President-elect Donald Trump’s mantra “Make America Great Again.” Is it a promise to return to a time when American manufacturing thrived
READ MOREDo you know people like this? If someone offers a critique of the local sports team, they’ll predictably jump in to say that the team is fine and there’s nothing to worry about. If someone expresses frustration with another person, they’ll see it as their duty to speak glowingly of that person and his good
READ MOREA poll released earlier this month includes a finding that may surprise those who say adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census will result in minority communities not being properly counted. Among the Hispanic registered voters polled in the survey sample for Harvard University’s latest national monthly public policy poll, 55% say they are in
READ MOREEven modest and long-overdue budget cuts draw criticism. The Trump administration proposed cutting the budget of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from $108.5 million to $106.7 million — a “minuscule amount,” notes education researcher George Leef. Yet the liberal columnist Colbert King claimed this tiny 1.66% cut would have somehow “gutted” civil rights
READ MOREWhat would ye twa cotters ken o’ battle, eh? I bet ye Lallybroch tumshies will turn arse and run at first blast o’ cannon fire… Pithy Scots brogue and throwaway insults punctuate Outlander, the phenomenally successful TV series that explores the final great Jacobite uprising of 1745 – the rebellion against King George II led
READ MOREA year ago, Ellen Stofan, a chief scientist at NASA, made a bold prediction on the question of the discovery of alien life in the universe: I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years
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