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Uncle Grandpa Can we let Marie Henein speak without calling all students “crybabies”?
With winter upon us, it’s time again for newspaper columnists to pile onto the delicate snowflake that is the everyday…
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Behind and beyond hateful rhetoric
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama claimed that history had ended. Having survived WWII…
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Raise a glass to freedom
Trump may have to wait a little longer for his apology. Brandon Victor Dixon, the actor who plays Aaron Burr…
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Stop assuming all conservatives are right-wing extremists
Conservatives — those nasty, bible-thumping, xenophobic, insensitive, fascists. To some it may seem like the battle for North America has…
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In defense of slacktivism
Everyone has one of those “social justice” friends on Facebook. They’re the type of person who changed their profile picture…
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A history of anti-rape devices
During one of my recent 3 a.m. YouTube raids, I remember seeing an infomercial for AR wear — a clothing…
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“Hello my name is… and I’m a racist.”
Trinity United Church of Christ in Concord, North Carolina holds Racist Anonymous meetings every Wednesday, where attendees can become acquainted…
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Holding out for a hero
The world’s a tough place for women these days, especially women at the United Nations who, faced with many challenges,…
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Let’s Talk About Sex(ualization)
Magazines in supermarkets, Hollywood films, men who catcall women on the street all demonstrate some extent of sexualization toward women…
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How was the final presidential debate?
It was bigly ridiculous. bigly [big•ly] adv. 1. of considerable size: Donald Trump’s ego is bigly inflated Synonyms: Yugely
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