I’m one of millions of Mexicans living in the United States who Donald Trump might assume is “good people.” I’m not a criminal, a rapist or a drug dealer. I did not cross the border by foot but arrived by plane in Seattle, a welcoming city I now call home. I was born in Mexico
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It’s sometimes amazing how much one can learn about society from places such as Reddit and Imgur. A prime example of this occurred a few days ago when an Imgur user posted a picture of a sign found outside of a Virginia coffee shop. Instead of listing one flat price for a cup of coffee,
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The date traditionally assigned to the Fall of the Roman Empire is 476 A.D., when Odoacer marched on Rome and deposed the last emperor. But Rome’s internal decline began long before then. As Will Durant famously said, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.” In his 1899 classic
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Last month, the University of Cincinnati issued a statement notifying the public that the school “will request a Diversity and Inclusion statement of all applicants for faculty and staff positions.” The policy went into effect on July 1, the release said. It includes the following specifics: Faculty and administrative/professional applicants will be asked to submit
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Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when you didn’t get one? Have you ever found it hard to deliver the words, I’m sorry? Such experiences show how much apologies matter. The importance placed on apologies is shared by many cultures. Diverse cultures even share a great deal in common when
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In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of a man who used a former co-worker’s password to access information from his previous employer. Via Reuters: A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday gave the U.S. Department of Justice broad leeway to police password theft under
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