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Dec 18 2013
News
Obama's Jab At Russia In Keeping With Olympic Tradition
When it comes to the Olympics, politics intrudes more often than not.
President Obama has decided not to attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in February. The official U.S. delegation will not include a president, vice president, first lady or former president for the first time since 2000. Instead, Obama asked athletes including openly gay tennis great Billie Jean King and two-
NPR (Online News)Mar 05 2015
News
Is Campus Rape Really An Epidemic?
“The Hunting Ground” opens with gleeful shrieking and tears of joy from high school girls reading college acceptance letters. All that SAT tutoring and toiling over college essays was worth it: these promising students are off to prestigious Ivy League and state schools that will launch them into equally prestigious, post-graduate jobs.
Of course, the next four years will see
Daily BeastJul 29 2017
Opinion
Carolla: 'Safe spaces' harm free speech, stunt students
As someone who makes his living by challenging ideas through humor, social commentary and, if warranted, ridicule, I care deeply about free speech. And there is a growing movement across our college campuses to shut down free speech of teachers, students and invited guests. This should scare the hell out of all us all.
Guest Writer - RightSep 11 2019
News
New England Patriots’ Antonio Brown Accused of Sexual Assault and Rape by Former Trainer
A former trainer accused newly signed New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown of multiple instances of sexual assault and rape in a federal civil lawsuit filed Tuesday. The suit was brought by Britney Taylor, who says she first met Brown in Bible study while they were both in college at Central Michigan and later was hired to be the All-Pro’s trainer. According to the suit, the 31-
SlateApr 12 2024
Headline Roundup
Biden Announces Cancellation of $7.4 Billion in Student Loan Debt
President Joe Biden announced the cancellation of an additional $7.4 billion in student loan debt on Friday.
Details: This round of debt cancellation will reportedly impact roughly 277,000 borrowers, including teachers, librarians, academics and public safety workers who have been making student loan payments for 10 years.
For Context: This brings the total sum of canceled
New York Times (News) The Hill Fox BusinessJan 15 2018
News
Three ways MLK speaks to our time
As the nation celebrates King's national holiday Monday, it's easy to freeze-frame him as the benevolent dreamer carved in stone on the Washington Mall. Yet the platitudes that frame many King holiday events often fail to mention the most radical aspects of his legacy, says Jeanne Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College and author of several books on the civil rights
CNN (Online News)Jun 07 2019
News
How ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Reminds Us That Masculinity Is Good
If Aristotle was correct when he said life imitates art, then “Star Trek: Discovery’s” Captain Christopher Pike is an opportunity for the science fiction genre to reshape the American narrative on masculinity.
Pike inspires his people to “be bold, be brave, be courageous.” In contradiction, sitcom television and college campuses influence Americans to believe that men are solely
The FederalistFeb 27 2020
News
Meet the immigration attorney trying to serve 2,000 asylum-seekers
It often feels like the only certainty in Charlene D’Cruz’s life these days is uncertainty. But there are always ways to maintain some semblance of routine.
This late January morning starts like most others: with a pot of tea brought from her Wisconsin home steeping next to her hotel breakfast. She’s greeting the hotel staff she is now on first-name terms with, wearing a purple T-shirt
Christian Science MonitorMar 19 2021
Analysis
Ron DeSantis Is Very Pleased With Himself
Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, has been saying as much for weeks — in partisan speeches, on conservative cable, at often out-of-the-way vaccine sites around the state in quick-hit appearances as spartan as they are scripted. One recent breezy, sunny afternoon in rural central Florida, for instance, an extension cord stretched from the back of a small building here at the local
PoliticoMay 14 2020
Analysis
The Supreme Court Isn’t Eager to Let Faithless Electors Blow Up the 2020 Election
No justice seemed prepared to let 538 obscure party loyalists choose the next president.
The Supreme Court indicated on Wednesday that it probably won’t blow up the 2020 election by letting 538 people you’ve never heard of pick the president. This presidential race promises to be one of the most divisive and chaotic in recent history, and courts should not inject any unnecessary mayhem
Slate