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  • It’s Not Just Trump Who Thinks America is in Decline

    It’s Not Just Trump Who Thinks America is in Decline0

    As you well know, at least part of Donald Trump’s campaign success has been due to his slogan “Make America Great Again.” The implication behind the slogan is that America is in decline. After all, as professor Noah Smith pointed out earlier this year, “you can’t ‘make America great again’ unless America isn’t-so-great right now.”

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  • It’s Not Just Her: The Worst Thing About Teaching

    It’s Not Just Her: The Worst Thing About Teaching0

    Tara Blair Ball has taught for nine years. And she hates teaching. At the end of the school year, she published an article on Medium entitled, “The #1 Reason Why I Hate Teaching.” Inspired by a complaint received at the end of the school year, Ball explains how a parent was upset that her daughter

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  • It’s National Men Make Dinner Day—and Twitter is Outraged

    It’s National Men Make Dinner Day—and Twitter is Outraged0

    • November 2, 2017

    In case you missed it, #NationalMenMakeDinnerDay was trending like crazy on Twitter today. Now, I had never heard of National Men Make Dinner Day before Nov 1, 2017. But according to the internet, which is never wrong, it lands on the first Thursday of November and was started by someone named Sandy Sharkey in 1998.

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  • It’s Irrational to Send Our Sons to War With Ukraine

    It’s Irrational to Send Our Sons to War With Ukraine0

    “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong,” Muhammad Ali famously said when asked about his opposition to the draft and the Vietnam War.            Well, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Russians either.            We seem to be inching closer and closer to a

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  • It’s called the Executive Branch

    It’s called the Executive Branch0

    In 2010, less than 25% of high school seniors in America were considered proficient in civics according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Even worse, in 2010 only 12% of high school seniors were proficient in history. Perhaps those numbers explain the unwarranted hand-wringing taking place today regarding President Trump’s supposed “gagging” or “censorship”

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  • It’s Bernie’s Party Now

    It’s Bernie’s Party Now0

    It’s starting to dawn on people – not least of all Democrats running for president – that Bernie Sanders might win the Democratic presidential nomination. The longtime independent socialist senator from Vermont rolled up yet another early state win, this time a landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses. And he may have solved the problem that doomed his 2016

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