This is my soapbox. These essays are written using a combination of logic, reason, and facts/statistics/data. There are opinions, but no propaganda.
Recent Supreme Court rulings shows just how disunited the ‘United’ States truly are.
Anyone who has followed the news in the USA for the last few decades knows that this has been, for a long time, a nation divided. The “culture wars” pit those who value protecting civil rights, access to health care, and opportunities for all people regardless of ethnic background, gender identity and orientation, against those who wish to maintain only those rights that were afforded to Christian, property-owning men of European decent hundreds of years ago.
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A school district in Tennessee has banned Maus from school…but it will likely not have the effect they want…
If you haven’t already seen the news, a school district in Tennessee has banned Maus. I’ve read the graphic novel, I’ve taught the graphic novel in English class in high school, there are holocaust survivors and victims in my family. So here goes. Their true intention The TN school district says that they banned this graphic novel because of less than a handful of swear words and a panel with some nudity.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an ancient one, with modern geopolitical weaknesses making any attempt to reduce it to a simple polemic impossible.
It always bothers me when people who are not Middle-East experts make broad pronouncements about flare ups of violence between Israel and Hamas, as if their perspective is somehow right whereas others who have studied, lived, and otherwise have stakes in the situation are less right, if not outright wrong. I’m often asked to weigh in with what I think. I suppose the quippy answer is to simply say “I think it sucks” and leave it at that.
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Every presidential election, the candidates stress how important it is. This time, four more years of Trump truly could end America as we know it.
Now that both political parties have held their online coronation parties, it’s official: Joe Biden will be running for President of the United States of America, with Kamala Harris as his Vice President, against incumbent president Donald Trump (and VP Mike Pence). Presidential elections are nothing extraordinary; they happen regularly every four years. But this one is different in every way: the stark difference between the two men, the near dystopian state of the nation, Trump’s repeated attempts to delegitimize the election, and his henchmen actively sabotaging the election via voter suppression and dismantling the US Postal Service.
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There is a lot of hand-wringing over which potential 2020 Democratic candidate for president is most electable, but what does ’electability’ really mean?
There are currently three hundred and sixteen (okay, twenty) Democratic candidates for the office of President of the United States of America in 2020. Each candidate has their own take on how to address the issues facing the nation, but perhaps one of the most pressing issues facing each candidate is that of electability. On the surface, electability is a very simple concept: the ability to get elected. But in practice, electability is far more subjective and slippery, meaning different things to different people.
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