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Mar 06 2023
News
Massachusetts State Flag Lands In Middle of Culture Wars
A local organization in Massachusetts is seeking to have the state's flag changed citing the flag's offensive imagery to indigenous individuals.
"The imagery of the Massachusetts Flag and Sea—a white hand holding a Colonial sword over the head of an Indigenous person, above a Latin motto that translates: "She Seeks by the Sword a Quiet Peace under Liberty"—is seen by many as a symbol of
Newsweek
Oct 02 2023
News
Lahaina locals praise cultural significance of Native Hawaiian homes fire survival
LAHAINA — Shaun “Buge” Saribay felt like giving up. Hours of makeshift firefighting with garden hoses and buckets of water across Lahaina didn’t stop flames from consuming his house, his rental properties and thousands of other structures in his beloved hometown. Drained, dirty and delirious, he continued anyway, pedaling a bicycle he found during the apocalyptic night of Aug. 8 to one Lahaina
The Maui News
Oct 02 2023
News
Locals praise cultural significance of Native Hawaiian neighborhood that survived Maui fire
LAHAINA — Shaun “Buge” Saribay felt like giving up. Hours of makeshift firefighting with garden hoses and buckets of water across Lahaina didn’t stop flames from consuming his house, his rental properties and thousands of other structures in his beloved hometown. LAHAINA — Shaun “Buge” Saribay felt like giving up. Hours of makeshift firefighting with garden hoses and buckets of water across
The Garden Island
Sep 07 2023
News
Public schools are the latest target of the right’s con culture
The right's war on public education has reached its inevitable conclusion: fighting back against supposed liberal indoctrination in schools by empowering an explicitly right-wing organization to expose schoolchildren to flagrant conservative propaganda.
PragerU is creating partnerships with Republican-controlled states to put videos from its PragerU Kids offshoot — which it bills as a
Media Matters
Sep 30 2022
Analysis
The culture war flashpoints dividing Latino Democrats
Talk to anyone who closely follows Latino voters — believe me, I’ve talked to a lot in the last few years — and they’ll likely share a similar lesson: America’s political parties, and their candidates’ campaigns, often shoot themselves in the foot by thinking that Latino and Hispanic voters have very different priorities when compared to the average American voter. Voting preference really
Vox
Jun 03 2020
Analysis
Culture War Back To The Future
Roger Kimball says all these riots and mayhem is a replay of 1968-72. Excerpts:
The violence that is exploding across the country now has almost nothing to doing with the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman. That was merely the catalyst for a process that has deep roots in American culture.
The moral is: ideas matter. For decades now, our
The American Conservative
Apr 21 2023
News
As GOP ramps up school culture wars, Democrats weigh a counterattack
As the country’s furious political fights engulf schools, Democrats have mostly played defense.
Many critics blamed Democrats for the extended school closures during the early stages of the pandemic, saying they put educators’ interests ahead of students’. Then Republicans cast themselves as defenders of “parents’ rights,” while accusing the left of trying to “indoctrinate” public
Chalkbeat
Sep 14 2023
News
Council Post: Building A Company Culture To Drive Success
Justin Goodbread CFP®, CEPA, CVGA, at WealthSource Partners, LLC, is a financial educator, wealth manager, author and speaker. We hear a lot about company culture these days. However, company culture is not just a trendy buzzword; it's a crucial factor that can significantly impact a company's success. In fact, numerous studies have highlighted the undeniable importance of fostering a healthy
Forbes
Sep 19 2019
Opinion
Trump’s Total Culture War
The real source of Trump derangement syndrome is his desire to wage a multi-front pushback against an elite, postmodern progressive world. Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf.
As a result, not even former president George W. Bush has incurred the degree of
Victor Hanson