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  • Colin Kaepernick and Why the NFL is the New WWE

    Colin Kaepernick and Why the NFL is the New WWE0

    Nike recently unveiled a huge advertising campaign celebrating the 30th anniversary of its iconic advertising slogan, “Just Do It.” The central star of the new campaign is former San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick. As you’ve likely heard by now, his line is, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” — Colin Kaepernick

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  • By Any Other Name: White Students Get Safe Space at This University

    By Any Other Name: White Students Get Safe Space at This University0

    • September 17, 2018

    Use of terms such as “safe space” and “white privilege” is increasingly common on college campuses, but when the University of Maryland at College Park announced creation of a weekly “safe space for white students” called White Awake, the negative response quickly prompted the school to change the name. Campus Reform reported the renaming Friday,

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  • 13-Year-Olds Given Mastectomies at California Clinic

    13-Year-Olds Given Mastectomies at California Clinic0

    How old must a girl be to consent to a mastectomy? Only 13, it appears. An article in JAMA Pediatrics on “Chest Dysphoria in Transmasculine Minors and Young Adults” at a US clinic was based on a survey which included 2 girls (transmales) who were 13 years old and had both breasts removed and 5

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  • What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?

    What’s a Girl to Do When a Powerful Man Asks Her to Flirt?0

    We are so used to the idea that, with a college degree and a packet of contraceptive pills, women are invincible, we are still trying to get our 21st century heads around the #MeToo phenomenon. Over the past year, countless women working in a variety of professions around the world have revealed that the price of

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  • The Alarming Findings of a New Study on Transgender Teens and Suicide

    The Alarming Findings of a New Study on Transgender Teens and Suicide0

    One in every two transgender adolescents who are born female but identify as male has attempted suicide in the past year, according to a new study. The study, “Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior,” was published in Pediatrics, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It raises serious questions about how families, schools, doctors,

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  • Six Simple Tips for Making Friends

    Six Simple Tips for Making Friends0

    Loneliness is frequently described in terms of a modern pandemic. A growing body of research indicates loneliness may be worse for your health than obesity or heavy smoking. While most people agree that loneliness is a problem, there’s far less consensus on what to do about it. Modern loneliness has a wide variety of causes.

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  • Proper Matches, Romantic Elopements, & True Love in Jane Austen’s Novels

    Proper Matches, Romantic Elopements, & True Love in Jane Austen’s Novels0

    Readers of Jane Austen’s novels recognize the plot that informs every story, the business of marriage that determines the future happiness of each eligible woman. Whom will Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Emma Woodhouse in Emma, Anne Elliot in Persuasion, Fanny Price in Mansfield Park, and Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility

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  • If You’re Going Through Hell: Some Thoughts

    If You’re Going Through Hell: Some Thoughts2

    By hell, I mean neither a trivial bad-hair day nor that bleak circle of hell reserved to the clinically depressed, a condition treated these days with medication and counseling. No—by hell I intend that protracted war in which you are a lone soldier and the forces arrayed against you are as dark and insidious as

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  • The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers

    The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers0

    Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” The Founders, they say, promoted a government role in education. Therefore, they would have opposed school choice. Retired educator Mary Wilke, a correspondent for the Concord Monitor, recently quoted John Adams—co-author of the Declaration of Independence

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