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  • The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty

    The Next Great Scandal: Photoshopped Modesty0

    There’s a new censorship scandal afoot: it involves school yearbook pictures, a little too much skin, and some lousy Photoshop skills. Blond, smiling ninth-grader Riley O’Keefe was one of the “victims” of some aggressive photoshopping of her yearbook pictures by high school administrators. O’Keefe’s original school picture featured a gray sweater over a low-cut black

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  • Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters

    Why There Are So Few Female Chess Grandmasters0

    Only those of very hard hearts can fail to admire Beth, the heroine of Walter Tevis’s magnificent novel, and now a popular television series, The Queen’s Gambit. We love the idea of her, a girl who makes good, starting off from very modest beginnings. She overcomes alcohol and drug addictions and rises to the very top

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  • The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict0

    “The U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” was the headline of Martin Indyk’s May 14 article in Foreign Affairs. Washington may not be able to end that conflict, he wrote, but must actively manage it. Indyk, a former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Barack Obama, and who served two separate

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  • Minneapolis Ignores the Real Problem Underlying Increase in Violent Child Deaths

    Minneapolis Ignores the Real Problem Underlying Increase in Violent Child Deaths0

    The city that witnessed the death of George Floyd is seeing more deaths this year, only this time they aren’t those of a full-grown man arrested for passing a counterfeit bill: they are the deaths of children caught in crossfire. The most recent death was that of six-year-old Aniya Allen, who was shot in the

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  • Turning America’s Sighing Into Singing

    Turning America’s Sighing Into Singing0

    “I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman once wrote. Today I hear America sighing. In a survey conducted in January 2021, 45 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Republicans, and 59 percent of Independents believed that the country was heading the wrong direction. In addition, 13 percent of Democrats, and 17 percent of Republicans and Independents were unsure

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  • Free Community College Will Only Make Things Worse

    Free Community College Will Only Make Things Worse0

    Like nearly all Americans, President Joe Biden believes that a college degree is the ticket to both individual economic advancement and uplifting the poor. To put his money where his mouth is, he has proposed $256 billion in government funding to cover two years of public community college plus cash for living expenses. In an instant, an

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