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The FBI’s Attacks on MLK, Jr. Are Helpful Reminders for Today 0
- History
- January 16, 2018
Writing for the Wall Street Journal in 2005, federal judge and former U.S. deputy attorney general Laurence Silberman recalled how he was “shocked” to discover the extent the FBI abused its power to spy on Americans. Speaking of the first time he reviewed the files of J. Edgar Hoover, Silberman writes how Hoover tasked “his agents with reporting
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California Makes 20x What Gas-Station Owners Make on a Gallon of Gasoline, After Tax Hike 0
- Economics
- January 16, 2018
California drivers experienced sticker shock at the gas pump on Nov. 1. The state’s gasoline tax rose by 12 cents per gallon that day, bringing the total to 39.8 cents. Along with the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, Californians now pay 58.2 cents in excise taxes per gallon. Like all other states with sales
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Can #MeToo Feminism and the Hookup Culture Coexist?0
- Culture
- January 16, 2018
There is a scene in the 2017 hit romantic comedy The Big Sick that shows the perfect one-night stand. The protagonist, a 30-something Pakistani immigrant named Kumail (played by Kumail Nanjiani of HBO’s Silicon Valley), meets an attractive grad student (Zoe Kazan) at a Chicago comedy club where he moonlights as a comedian. They have
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When Feeding the Homeless Becomes a Crime 0
- Politics
- January 16, 2018
More than a dozen people were recently arrested in El Cajon, California. Their crime? They were feeding the homeless. “The arrests come in the wake of a newly enacted city ordinance banning people from feeding the homeless in public,” a local news station reported. The group was aware of the ordinance, the report said, but
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The Suffering of Surrogacy: A Veteran Feminist Spells It Out 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2018
What do Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ricky Martin have in common? They all bought babies via surrogacy. You might have seen them in glossy women’s magazines. Of course the women who bore the babies are nowhere to be seen; they would have received but a small cut of
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Why MLK’s Vision of Love as a Moral Imperative Still Matters 0
- Culture
- January 15, 2018
2017 was a year of increased conflict in the United States. Many diverse communities were forced to confront a range of challenges related to anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia and anti-immigrant feelings. These challenges strike at the heart of what it means to live in a multicultural, democratic society. Yet, it is not the first time America
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