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Former NPR CEO Spends a Year with Devout Trump Voters. Here’s What He Discovered.0
- October 31, 2017
Ken Stern spent eight and a half years at NPR, first as the network’s Executive Vice President, then as its CEO. Then in 2016, spurred by why he called a deep fear that the red and blue division in America was tearing the nation apart, he did something extraordinary. “I decided to venture out from my overwhelmingly
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So This Is What Happens With Government Disaster Relief?0
- October 31, 2017
The idea of having government assist after a natural disaster sounds great. It makes us feel good. Houston floods? Send millions. New Orleans floods? Send hundreds of millions. Puerto Rico? The place is a mess and needs billions and billions. It all seems right. Until you look at the details. Someone gets the money. Whether
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Why Globalism is Doomed 0
- Economics
- October 30, 2017
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the international body based in Basel, Switzerland that represents the world’s central banks, claims in its latest annual report that globalization is a “scapegoat” for rising inequality, as it launches a defense of closer cross-border ties and integration. You didn’t get a copy and read every word of it?
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The Misguided Campaign to Remove this Thomas Hart Benton Mural 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2017
In recent years, people have protested the racism of Confederate statues, Hollywood and sports mascots. But a curious campaign has taken place on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. Students have circulated petitions and organized protests seeking the removal or destruction of painter Thomas Hart Benton’s 1933 mural “A Social History of Indiana,” which contains an image
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Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?0
- Culture
- October 30, 2017
Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of
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Why ‘Black and Orange Spirit Day’ is Now a Thing 0
- October 30, 2017
A Massachusetts elementary school recently made national headlines after canceling its annual Halloween costume parade and announcing it would henceforth observe “Black and Orange Spirit Day.” “[T]he costume parade is out of our ordinary routine and can be difficult for many students,” Brendan Dearborn, principal at Boyden Elementary School principal, wrote to parents. “Also, the
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