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Taco Tuesday’s Days Might Be Numbered. Because Cultural Appropriation 0
- Culture
- June 5, 2017
A burrito cart in Portland recently closed after citizens of one of America’s most progressive cities charged its owners with cultural appropriation. Accused of exploiting a marginalized culture by serving its food, two white women and their breakfast burritos were forced into early retirement. Does this signify the collapse of ethnic cuisine? Are all Mexican
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6 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Books Actually Worth Reading 4
- Culture
- June 2, 2017
When I was a young teen, I found it odd that so many assigned books were, well, rubbish. Many of these books were critically acclaimed, and some of them had even won literary awards. But oftentimes authors seemed verbose, overwrought, and moralistic (in a postmodern sense). No, the pipe-smoking literary snobs in their tweed coats
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Why Emotionally Abusive Women Are Given a Pass in Pop Culture 0
- Culture
- June 2, 2017
Cultural commentary is usually interesting because it’s easy to relate to. Even if you don’t agree with the author’s conclusion or any soft political message, you recognize the scenes and situations that the writer describes. Yet as I read Karen Rinaldi’s article in Motto (an online project of Time), I thought she must live on
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Scientists may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe 0
- Science
- June 2, 2017
Scientists have long tried to explain the origin of a mysterious, large and anomalously cold region of the sky. In 2015, they came close to figuring it out as a study showed it to be a “supervoid” in which the density of galaxies is much lower than it is in the rest of the universe.
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Environmental Scholar’s Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty 0
- Economics
- June 2, 2017
In response to the U.S. withdrawing from the Paris climate treaty, I’ve issued the following statement: The Paris climate treaty is climatically insignificant. EPA’s own models show it would only lower global warming by an inconsequential two-tenths of a degree Celsius by 2100. The cost to the U.S. – in the form of required payments
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4 Reasons Trump Was Right to Pull Out of the Paris Agreement 0
- International
- June 2, 2017
President Donald Trump has fulfilled a key campaign pledge, announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The Paris Agreement, which committed the U.S. to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy. It
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