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  • Overcoming Cultural and Racial Division in the Age of Trump

    Overcoming Cultural and Racial Division in the Age of Trump0

    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

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  • Over-Optimistic People Aren’t Just Annoying… They’re Also Illogical

    Over-Optimistic People Aren’t Just Annoying… They’re Also Illogical0

    Do 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

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  • Over Half of Hispanic Voters Support Citizenship Question on Census

    Over Half of Hispanic Voters Support Citizenship Question on Census0

    A 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

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  • Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year

    Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year0

    Even 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

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  • Outlander is Boosting a Renaissance of the Scots Language – Here’s How

    Outlander is Boosting a Renaissance of the Scots Language – Here’s How0

    What 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

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  • Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?

    Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?0

    A 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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