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Why Your Favorite YouTuber Probably Hasn’t Been #Canceled 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2019
YouTube stars Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson have joined forces to release a makeup line called the Conspiracy Collection. In a mere 30 minutes, the duo sold one million palettes of eyeshadow. The demand was so huge, it crashed Shopify for several hours. Star and Dawson seem to be riding high, which is especially remarkable
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Federalizing Day Care Is a Terrible Idea 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2019
Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has unveiled a proposal to centrally plan the family by expanding the school day. She claims that, “aligning school and work schedules is an economic growth and child development strategy.” It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the economy and the proper role of the state in it. Kara Voght, writing for Mother
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The End of the Electoral College Is Closer Than You Think 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2019
Two hundred seventy votes. That’s all that’s needed for state legislatures to undermine the checks and balances imposed by the Electoral College. The National Popular Vote bill already has the approval of 16 jurisdictions with 196 votes. Once it hits a majority of the 538 electoral votes (270), it will be a binding agreement among
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Journalism’s Uncomfortable Marriage to Non-Monogamy 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2019
If the pace of change over the last few decades to reinvent marriage hasn’t left you gasping for air, take a deep breath now. Here comes the next leg in the race to deinstitutionalize the meaning of marriage: consensual non-monogamy (CNM), where two individuals ostensibly consent to open their relationship to other sexual and emotional
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The Exploitative Reality of Surrogacy and Egg Donation 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2019
Over the last two years, I noticed my Facebook and Instagram feeds filling with ads urging me to donate my eggs or to become a surrogate. At first I laughed it off. But the more ads I saw, the more concerned and uncomfortable I felt. So, I started a small experiment. Every time I saw
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Does Hillary Clinton Want Fact-Checking… or Censorship?0
- Politics
- November 12, 2019
Recently Hillary Clinton blasted Facebook, Tweeting: Facebook’s decision to allow false information in political advertisements is appalling. Voters are being confronted by millions of pieces of misinformation. A world where up is down and down is up is a world where democracy can’t thrive. Other Democrats joined in. Virginia Senator Mark Warner said: “Facebook’s
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