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Friday Comic: Bribing the Guard 0
- Entertainment
- March 1, 2024
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What the Alabama IVF Ruling Says About the Right to Life 3
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- February 29, 2024
A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court last week has been the cause of immense hyperventilating in the mainstream press—and the predictable invocation of scare terms like “theocracy” and “Christian nationalism.” In LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C., a fertility clinic that neglected to properly secure its frozen embryo nursery from a prying patient
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What Drove Last Year’s Biggest Population Growth in US History 2
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- February 28, 2024
Immigration is behind the biggest annual population increase in the history of the United States, according to an independent research firm. “US population grew +3.8M in 2023 – the largest one-year increase in US history,” tweeted Eric Finnigan of John Burns Research and Consulting (JBREC) earlier this month. “The surge is likely short-lived as its
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The Humanity of Huck Finn 1
- Literature
- February 28, 2024
Huckleberry Finn is no hero, though he is clearly a child on the cusp of adulthood. That perhaps is one reason I enjoy reading and teaching Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn every year. Like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck and Tom’s imaginary childhood adventures quickly become real. From pranking the ever-suspicious Jim at night to
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The American Dream: What It Means and Why It’s Important 3
- Culture
- February 27, 2024
Have you ever known a friend who said, “Next year I’m moving to Rome and living the Italian Dream?” How about a buddy who over coffee declared, “I can’t stand this country anymore. I’m off to Ankara, where I can live the Turkish Dream?” Or an uncle who slapped his open hand on the table
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‘The New York Times,’ the 1619 Project, and ‘Quid Est Veritas’?4
- Philosophy, Featured
- February 27, 2024
Many of us have heard of the 1619 Project and its attempt to reinvent American history. 1619, according to The New York Times writers, is the year that the first slaves arrived on American soil. And since, according to the 1619 Project, unjust slave labor initiated and sustained the socioeconomic structure of America, 1619 is
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