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The Transgender Suicide Myth Exposed 0
- Culture
- February 17, 2020
Jazz Jennings, star of the TLC reality show “I Am Jazz,” has been sharing her transition story from male to female since she was six years old. Now she is 19, bound for Harvard, and convalescing from last year’s “bottom surgery” – removal of the male bits. The sixth season of “I Am Jazz”, which
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Why the Deception? The Chinese Government and Coronavirus 0
- International
- February 17, 2020
If you have kept abreast of the coronavirus outbreak in China, an influenza threatening to spread to other parts of the globe, you may be aware that some investigators who believed the virus came from a laboratory rather than a wet market were ridiculed for being anti-Chinese and conspiracy theorists. It now seems that events
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Why the Movie Industry Is Fleeing California 0
- Culture
- February 14, 2020
Ah, Hollywood. The Mecca of filmmaking. Thousands of would-be actors, screenwriters, and directors flock to Los Angeles, California to fulfill their dreams of becoming a star because, after all, that’s where movie-making happens. Everyone knows this. And for close to a century, it was true. But today, Hollywood – the way we generally think of it – is fading
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Lucy Doesn’t Love Sensitivity Readers 0
- Culture
- February 14, 2020
In 1953, Lucille Ball’s character in I Love Lucy, Lucy Ricardo, gave birth to Ricky Ricardo Jr., bringing an end to perhaps the most famous television pregnancy ever. The episode, Lucy Goes to the Hospital, saw 44 million viewers tune in, covering nearly 72 percent of all American homes which owned a television. The saga of Lucy’s television
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Trump’s Big Bet on Career and Technical Education 0
- Education
- February 14, 2020
President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history. As a education policy researcher who studies the economic and employment impact of career and technical education in high school, I believe this proposal has a lot of potential to open up new job opportunities,
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Conventional Wisdom About the Democrats’ Primary Is Wrong 0
- Politics
- February 14, 2020
There are three widely proclaimed verities now bandied about in the aftermath of the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday. They are that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a clear front-runner with a chance for a break-through to a commanding lead in the quest for the nomination. The second is that former South
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The Transgender Suicide Myth Exposed 0