Bill Kristol blames rap music. And the fraternity’s lawyer says the racist chanters were “tarred and feathered.” (Yes, he did.)
Youth
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Photo of the Day, Crushing the Wonder of Childhood Edition
View image | gettyimages.com This innocent tot is inspecting a “fairy door” in Somerset woods in England. Here’s the caption from Getty: Over the past few years more than 100 fairy doors have appeared delighting local children and adults alike who come to see homes of the fairies and leave gifts and messages. However, the […]
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Friday Linguistic Digression
Flickr/debaird Since it’s Friday, we’ll begin the day with a non-political digression on language. I’ve been meaning to put together my thoughts on this story that came out a couple of weeks ago from Britt Peterson of the Boston Globe on the “quotative like,” the now-common use in which the word “like” indicates someone saying […]
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Photo Essay: Vigil for Slain Chapel Hill Muslim Students
While the media lit up with arguments over whether or not Craig Hicks’s execution-style killing of three young Arabs was a hate crime, the UNC community gathered to commemorate the lives of the slain.Â
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What to Do When ‘I Do’ Is Done
LGBT activists and funders are debating the movement’s post-marriage priorities.
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Rand Paul’s Attack on Jeb Bush’s Pot ‘Hypocrisy’ Heralds a Signal Issue for 2016 Campaign
With pot legalization measures appearing on 2016 ballots in some six states, presidential candidates will have to answer a tricky question.
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Reefer Sanity
The Republican presidential nominating contest has barely begun, and already we’re talking about marijuana. This is yet another issue most Republicans would just as soon not discuss, since public opinion is moving away from them and they haven’t quite figured out how fast they should follow after it. But at the moment, Jeb Bush can […]
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McMorris-Rodgers and Anti-Choice Marchers All For ‘Life’ Until It’s Born
She’s all for the fetus, until it’s born and needs health insurance. Or anything.
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The True Cost of Teach For America’s Impact on Urban Schools
Why are school districts paying millions in “finder’s fees” to an organization that places people without education degrees to teach in urban schools—even where applications from veteran teachers abound?
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Nationwide Ferguson Protests Don’t Halt For the Holidays
This Thanksgiving week, cities from Boston to Oakland proved that America is in a new era of civil rights.
