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Jennifer Bridges knew what was coming when her director at Houston Methodist hospital called her up in June to inquire about her vaccination status. Bridges, a 39-year-old registered nurse, responded “absolutely not” when asked if she was vaccinated or had made an effort to get vaccinated. She was terminated on the spot. “We all knew
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Lindsay Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial several weeks ago after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether she was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey sensed her citizens’ worry that the precedent of this case would lead to copycat cases, so she
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Religious freedom, Congress said unanimously in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Today, however, an obsession with gender ideology is driving governments to ignore the First Amendment, defy clear Supreme Court precedent, and even violate their own laws and regulations to root out those with the “wrong” religious views about
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Massachusetts has long been known as a leader in American education. As early as 1647, the state decreed that every sizeable town form a school to ensure that children learn to read and write. The state’s prominence in education has continued through the 21st century, in which Massachusetts is often held up as a model
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My editor at Intellectual Takeout, Annie Holmquist, wrote to me the Monday after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio to ask if I might write a column about these horrific murders. She and some of the staff were discussing the shootings and found themselves asking the following questions: Why are young
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When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12 hours later, responses to the tragedy included many of the same myths and stereotypes Americans have grown used to hearing in the wake of a mass shooting. As part of my work as a psychology researcher,
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