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  • You Can Work for the Bernie 2020 Campaign, but Don’t Expect Health Insurance

    You Can Work for the Bernie 2020 Campaign, but Don’t Expect Health Insurance0

    Polls show that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders enjoys great appeal among young voters. No Health Insurance for Interns A Harvard-Harris poll conducted in January found that the Vermont senator’s strongest support comes from the 18-34 demographic, where he was favored by nearly one-third (29 percent) of prospective Democratic and independent voters. Sanders’s closest rivals in

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  • You Can Trust The Polls in 2018, If You Read Them Carefully

    You Can Trust The Polls in 2018, If You Read Them Carefully0

    On the morning of Nov. 8, 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary Clinton would be elected the nation’s first female president. Their confidence was driven, in no small part, by a pervasive message that Clinton was ahead in the polls and forecasts leading up to the election. Polling aggregation sites, such as

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  • You Can Judge a School by Its Book List

    You Can Judge a School by Its Book List2

    How can parents determine where their child will learn the most and become a well-rounded and knowledgeable citizen? Writing in the early 20th century, British educator and author Charlotte Mason left us with a simple and sound answer to this question: examine school book lists. “Most of us can get into touch with original minds

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  • You Are Who You Eat With

    You Are Who You Eat With0

    Why do we make food? The obvious answer is so we can have food fights. Joking aside, when I reflect on my experience with the culinary arts – whether carefully crafting Buche de Noel for Christmas or whiling away a summer afternoon making flakey scones – food is ultimately about people and community. Yet it

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  • You are here Georgia Tech Prof. Resigns, Cites Politicization of Academia

    You are here Georgia Tech Prof. Resigns, Cites Politicization of Academia0

    A climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Judith Curry, abruptly resigned last week citing “craziness in the field of climate science” and the politicization of academia. Via her blog, Climate Etc.: Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech…. Technically, my resignation is a retirement event, since I

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  • Yikes! One-Third of Americans Can’t Name ANY First Amendment Rights

    Yikes! One-Third of Americans Can’t Name ANY First Amendment Rights0

    On December 15, 1791, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were ratified, giving Americans their famed Bill of Rights. Sadly, many Americans don’t even know the freedoms they are guaranteed in the first and most famous amendment. According to the 2015 State of the First Amendment survey: “When asked to name the five specific

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