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in NewsAbolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement
Division, disaster, and political violence are hardly new within the historical past of the United States. It might appear to be the present political local weather is driving the nation to a breaking level, however historical past factors to examples that may function encouragement for many who really feel they’re powerless to alter the political […] More
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in NewsThe Contradictions of Conservative Masculinity
After tapping into the“manosphere” of podcast listeners and faculty fraternities, the Trump-Vance marketing campaign succeeded in successful over younger male voters, exit polls recommend. But the conservative imaginative and prescient of masculinity that received over sudden numbers of Gen Z voters wasn’t geared toward simply the stereotypical bros—a undeniable fact that Vice President-elect J.D. Vance […] More
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in NewsWhat Democrats Can Learn from America’s First Black Voters
Following Kamala Harris’ defeat and the GOP’s congressional successes within the 2024 elections, many Democrats are expressing not solely rage and frustration, however concern. Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will present him the chance to make sure the Supreme Court stays firmly in conservative fingers for the foreseeable future. Many Democrats concern the unconventional […] More
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in NewsThe Democratic Party Realignment That Empowered Trump
In the tip, America’s verdict was delivered faster than many observers had anticipated. The voters’s swing in the direction of Donald Trump and the GOP could nicely have been a direct results of lingering unhappiness with post-pandemic inflation and public disinterest within the Biden administration’s efforts to restructure the United States financial system. Many Democratic […] More
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in NewsHow Wisconsin Became the Ultimate Purple State
Tright here’s one factor upon which Kamala Harris and Donald Trump readily agree: Wisconsin will play a significant position in who wins the election. In a July speech in Milwaukee, Harris asserted, “The path to the White House runs via Wisconsin.” Similarly, on Oct. 6, Trump, visiting the state for the fourth time in eight […] More
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in NewsJames Earl Jones’ Legacy Lives on at Michigan Football Games
As the Michigan Wolverines tackle the Michigan State Spartans this Saturday for the 117th time since their first recreation in 1898, a well-known voice will ring by means of the most important school soccer stadium within the nation: that of James Earl Jones. While the famed actor and U-M alumnus handed away on Sept. 9, […] More
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in NewsThe Ambivalent History of Indigenous Citizenship
This yr Indigenous People’s Day marks 100 years since Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Americans are often shocked after they study that those that preceded Europeans on this continent didn’t acquire citizenship for greater than a half century after the Fourteenth Amendment gave that standing to “all individuals […] More
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in NewsThe Catch-22 of Puerto Rico’s Status Referendum
This November, the U.S. residents of Puerto Rico will go to the polls, similar to their fellow U.S. residents. But in contrast to their fellow residents, they will be unable to vote for Senators or Representatives or the President. A U.S. territory since 1898, Puerto Rico has its personal structure and authorities, but it surely […] More
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in NewsHow Qatar Became a Major Middle East Power Broker
Ismail Haniyeh, political chief of Hamas, was assassinated in July in Tehran. The location of the assassination was notable, as a result of Haniyeh had spent most of his time in Doha, Qatar, since 2017. Most observers concur that Israel was behind the assassination, although it has neither confirmed nor denied doing so, and it’s […] More
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in NewsWhy Kamala Harris’ Promises on Abortion Matter to Black Women
Before rising to the highest of the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris championed secure, authorized entry to abortion. On the marketing campaign path she has promised that if Congress passes laws restoring reproductive freedoms, as President she would signal it into legislation. Recent reviews present that restrictions on abortion applied for the […] More
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in NewsA World’s Fair Could Be Just What We Need
Sixty years have handed because the opening of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, the final of the grand-tradition expositions within the U.S. There have been different world festivals that adopted — the final one on U.S. soil got here with the Louisiana World Exposition in 1984 — however none would evaluate in dimension or […] More
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in NewsWhat the Right Gets Wrong About the History of Gender
The assault on LGBTQ individuals from proper wing Republicans continues unabated. In 2024 alone, 527 anti-LGBTQ payments have been launched in state legislatures throughout the U.S. attacking the rights of queer individuals, and particularly transgender individuals. Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming look after minors is one such invoice, which has not too long ago been […] More