All of this talk about free college and student loan forgiveness should lead us to wonder why college costs and debt are rising in the first place. Not that long ago, many of us paid for much or all of our college tuition — even at private institutions — by working campus and summer jobs.
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When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut’s girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn’t just a local news story. To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record
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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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Who should be a greater influence in a child’s life: parents or teachers? Many would say the latter. After all, teachers are the professional experts who know about childhood development and the elements of a good education. They are the ones who can get children through school, into a good college, and eventually into a
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Socialism is just a theory, an ethos, for many born and raised in the United States. But for Ricardo Pita, who was born and raised in socialist Venezuela and came to America about a decade ago, socialism is not just theoretical. He has a message for those who haven’t experienced it and think it will
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James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, repeatedly emphasized that the United States is a “republic” and not a “democracy.” In stark contrast, Jonathan Bernstein, a Bloomberg columnist and former political science professor recently insisted: “One of this age’s great crank ideas, that the U.S. is
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