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Science and Technology
Study: Black young adults raised by two parents far more likely to obtain college degree
Compared to peers from homes with two biological parents, black young adults who grew up in a home with only…
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Politics
Oakland, Calif. to send out $500 checks to poor families, provided they are not white
Schaaf explained her reason for limiting eligibility to people of color to the Associated Press, noting that white households in…
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Law and Government
The pandemic didn’t cause the huge increase in the murder rate
Professor Shon Hopwood suggested the rise in America’s murder rate was due to the ‘global pandemic, reduced economic opportunity, and…
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Foreign Affairs
COVID-19 spreading faster in Europe than in the United States
By contrast, notes Bloomberg News, vast numbers of people have plunged into poverty in other countries, and hunger is spreading…
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Law and Government
Dem filmmaker does a 180 on illegal immigration after researching topic for documentary
'I was at a crossroads. Do I tell the truth and go ahead and make the film or do I…
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Economy
The twilight of great American cities is here. Can we stop it?
What is needed is a broad alliance among the remaining sane elements in cites, with a greater focus on protecting…
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Law and Government
Ocasio-Cortez: Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is physically impossible
Face it: America needs a good laugh right now. Tempers are running a little high. So be thankful for Alexandria…
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Business
On MLK Day, Ocasio-Cortez channels Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ routine, gets ovation
It wasn't true when Barack Obama said it, and it's not true now. But Democratic wunderkind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got a…
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Economy
Democratic Socialist House candidate: ‘If billionaires didn’t exist, poverty wouldn’t either’
On Christmas Eve, Anthony Clark, a candidate for the House seat representing Illinois’s 7th Congressional District, issued a tweet that…
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Social Issues
Rapper slammed for literally hurling cash at ‘peasants’ on LA’s Skid Row
Maybe his next hit will be a cover of Badfinger’s ’70s hit “Come and Get It,” which includes the lyrics…
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Education
Activists want to abolish your kid’s honors classes, say high achievement = white toxicity, supremacism
In October, Seattle public schools unveiled a ‘framework’ to inject ‘math ethnic studies’ into all K-12 math classes, teaching ‘how…
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Law and Government
Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Just Society’ proposal would make society anything but just
It’s all pretty vague, though what is clear is that these proposals, if implemented, will do the exact opposite of…
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