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White Privilege and the Real Slavery Record 0
- History
- June 18, 2020
America’s knowledge of history is dead. Former vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine killed it on the Senate floor during a speech Tuesday. “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody we created it,” Kaine said. “It got created by the Virginia general assembly and the legislatures of other states. It got created by the court systems
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History Shows How We Could Have Avoided Our Happiness Decline 0
- History
- June 18, 2020
A few days ago, it was revealed that American happiness had taken a historic plunge. Measuring numbers against the last 50 years, researchers from NORC at the University of Chicago announced that only 14 percent of Americans report being “very happy.” This is a “17 percentage-point drop since 2018,” the organization reported. Many Americans likely
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OSU Coach Censured for Choice of News Channel 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2020
Mike Gundy, the head coach of Oklahoma State University’s football team, is in hot water. His crime? Wearing a One America News Network (OAN) branded t-shirt while out fishing. This sparked the ire of Gundy’s star running back Chuba Hubbard. In response to the photo of Gundy’s fishing haul, Hubbard tweeted, “I will not stand for this..
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De-Unionizing Led to Camden’s Success With Police 0
- Economics
- June 17, 2020
A movement to “defund the police” is afoot following the high-profile death of George Floyd, a 46-year old Minneapolis man whose death at the hands of Minneapolis police on Memorial Day sparked nationwide protests and rioting. It’s unclear precisely what “defund the police” is supposed to mean. Or rather, it seems to mean different things
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Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine 15
- Politics
- June 17, 2020
At the time of peak lockdown, nearly 94 percent of the U.S. population was placed under stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19. Currently, every state is working toward ending, or already has ended, their stay-at-home measures. Lifting the lockdown has provided many benefits. Foremost, the U.S. economy climbed out of a severe downturn,
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Leaving Richmond Because of Racism 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2020
For most of his life, my friend John, 60, has lived near Richmond, Virginia. Much of that time his home was about 75 yards from the city limits, but for the last few years he has rented an apartment in Henrico County, still less than two miles from the city. He attended a private school
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