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  • Frozen’s Propaganda Gets Thawed

    Frozen’s Propaganda Gets Thawed0

    Is Elsa from Disney’s animated film “Frozen” a closet lesbian? Many conclude she is, and supporters of an LGBT princess think there are signs backing these speculations. “Disney really just released the trailer (for “Frozen 2”) during pride month. Elsa is a lesbian confirmed! That’s just how it is, I don’t make the rules,” comments a fan

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  • Four Things We Can Learn From the Amish About Technology

    Four Things We Can Learn From the Amish About Technology0

    Picture the Amish for a moment. Do you see dour men in bulky black coats with beards? Horse-drawn buggies clomping down asphalt highways? A technophobic people horribly out of step with the twenty-first century? If these are your thoughts, you’re not alone. Yet according to Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine and author of “What

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  • Don’t Go to College

    Don’t Go to College0

    I can’t pretend to have any insights into the experiences of successful black people, seeing as I’m neither. But I was struck by the video of Robert Smith’s commencement address at Morehouse College, where he announces that he’ll personally pay off every single graduate’s student loans. Unless you’re the personal recipient of Mr. Smith’s benevolence,

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  • 12 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Children Don’t Do

    12 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Children Don’t Do0

    My five-year-old was a blubbering, hot mess. He tackled kindergarten fine nine months before, but the first day of summer camp was too much for him. “I don’t want to go. I don’t want to go,” he moaned, sobbing fat crocodile tears. Most parents have been in situations like this. It’s one of the toughest

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  • New York Makes Rent Control More Severe

    New York Makes Rent Control More Severe0

    Leaders of New York’s legislature have decided to tighten rent control in New York City. They also will change the law to make it harder for landlords across the state to get rid of tenants who don’t pay their rent, or violate their leases, if those tenants can’t find similar housing in the “same neighborhood.” Economists expect this legislation

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  • How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading

    How a Backflipping Terrier Got Me Reading0

    My junior year of college saw me making my way through the high points of Greco-Roman literature. Of the works on my reading list, the Odyssey was by far the easiest to navigate. Deftly, I followed Odysseus past the sirens, between Scylla and Charybdis, all the way home to Ithaca. You see, this was a

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