In creating a better political future, it is better to be cursed with youth than blessed with age.
Youth
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Daily Meme: You Probably Should Check Your Privilege
Sometimes, in the wilds of the internet, all it takes to get people’s blood boiling is a screed from one college freshman. Such is the saga of Tal Fortgang, a Princeton first-year who wrote an inflammatory essay in the campus conservative magazine about being told to “check his privilege.”If you’re not familiar with the phrase […]
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The Next Christian Sex-Abuse Scandal
As sex-abuse allegations multiply, Billy Graham’s grandson is on a mission to persuade Protestant churches to come clean.
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All of a Piece: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the Supreme Court of the United States
This past week has been hell for African Americans. So much for post-racialism.
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Daily Meme: The Court’s Faux Colorblindness
“A blinkered view of race in America won out in the Supreme Court on Tuesday when six justices agreed, for various reasons, to allow Michigan voters to ban race-conscious admissions policies in higher education … ” So starts the New York Times‘s righteous take-down of today’s Supreme Court ruling in Schuette v. BAMN, in which […]
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Hillary Clinton, Youth Candidate
Republicans will nominate someone younger than her, and it won’t make a difference to young people.
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The Conversation: Joshua Steckel and Andrew Delbanco
Steckel, a high school college counselor and author of Hold Fast to Dreams, and Delbanco, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, discuss the collegiate experience of low-income students.
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Is There Hope for the Survivors of the Drug Wars?
Criminalized and discarded, falling at the bottom of every statistic, they want something better.
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When Death Comes to the Festival
Will the tragedy at SXSW change the nature of the celebration in years to come?
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Stress, Poverty, and the Childhood Reading Gap
A recent study adds to the mounting pile of evidence that a child’s early years are critical for determining later academic success. Poor kids are falling far behind.