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  • 5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal

    5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal0

    This year marks the 85th anniversary of the New Deal, the controversial set of programs, public works, and economic reforms that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt undertook to combat America’s Great Depression. Historians commonly contend that the New Deal was pivotal in beating the Great Depression and protecting the American middle class. But how significant was it,

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  • Why America Can’t Figure Out Melania’s Confident Fashion Statements

    Why America Can’t Figure Out Melania’s Confident Fashion Statements0

    The first state dinner hosted by the Trumps was received with great pomp, circumstance, and, per usual, titter over the little details. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was First Lady Melania Trump’s fashion choices that generated a lot of attention. Her gown for the dinner. The black outfit she wore when she visited Mount Vernon. The

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  • Rent Control Advocates Need a Lesson in Economics

    Rent Control Advocates Need a Lesson in Economics0

    Rent control is one of those policies that continues to attract the favor of the public despite the fact it has repeatedly proven to be ineffective when it comes to improving the lives of those it is aimed at. The latest example can be found in Sacramento, California, where a group of people have put

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  • Prof Who Said She’s Happy Barbara Bush Is Dead Didn’t Violate University Policies, Cal State Says

    Prof Who Said She’s Happy Barbara Bush Is Dead Didn’t Violate University Policies, Cal State Says0

    California State University, Fresno closed its investigation Tuesday into the professor who called former first lady Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” and said she is “happy the witch is dead.” Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro asserted that English professor Randa Jarrar did not violate any of the school’s policies with her remarks, reported the Foundation for Individual Rights in

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  • How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students

    How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students0

    Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just

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  • Agnostic Philosopher: Religion Is Awesome Emotional Therapy

    Agnostic Philosopher: Religion Is Awesome Emotional Therapy0

    Faith and religion get an increasingly bad rap in today’s world. As Pew Research discovered in 2016, roughly a quarter of Americans consider themselves members of the “nones,” a category which classifies people as “atheists, agnostics or ‘nothing in particular.’” This number has risen from ten percent just a few decades ago. However, not everyone

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  • Whistleblower: There Is No Faculty Accountability in Universities

    Whistleblower: There Is No Faculty Accountability in Universities0

    I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me to act. I had become embroiled in a situation where I was morally bound to report wrongdoing. But I had no idea that being a

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  • What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?

    What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?0

    Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in

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  • Poll Reveals the Least Religious Parts of America

    Poll Reveals the Least Religious Parts of America0

    This month, Gallup released the results of their annual poll on religious practice in America.   The most religious state? Mississippi, which has held the crown since 2008. According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being “Very religious,” meaning that “religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.”

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