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Pressure builds for Augusta golf club to bend ban on women

Political pressure mounted on Friday for Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the Masters tournament, to bend its ban on women members to allow the female chief executive of tournament sponsor IBM...

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The Chinese Hukou – household registration

This discrepancy is mainly achieved through the hukou, a household registration system that prevents workers from becoming fully entitled residents in the regions to which they have migrated to work,...

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Egyptian Military’s Assault on Protesters

The images in Egypt are excruciating to behold, both in a literal and philosophical sense. In what appeared to be more of a direct military assault than a police-style crowd-clearing exercise, Egyptian...

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Canada’s “Persons” Case: A living tree

Whether it would be desirable for women to be eligible for senatorial appointment was beside the point, Chief Justice Frank Anglin wrote in his opinion. What mattered was what the drafters of the 1867...

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Fanny Mendelssohn

Based on contemporary accounts of her music, she had talents as a composer that were fairly comparable to her brother.  However, her father opposed a professional career as unsuitable for a young...

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12 Years a Slave’s Reminder: Slaves Didn’t Win Freedom by Being Manly

12 Years a Slave though, doesn’t present masculinity as a solution to slavery, and as a result it’s able to think about and care about women as people rather than as accessories or MacGuffins.

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How the DEA Harasses Amtrak Passengers

The officer asked if I was Aaron Heuser, and then asked to see my ticket. He then told me that there were many red flags on my trip, mainly that I had a sleeper car, was traveling alone, and did not...

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Confederacy Theory

And you thought the Civil War was over… Confederacy Theory presents and unflinching portrait of the cultural war that has erupted around the confederate flag – a century-old symbol that threatens to...

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The Huge Cultural Shift That’s Helping Trump Win Evangelicals

In Mississippi, where evangelicals turned out in record numbers—and white evangelicals accounted for a whopping 75 percent of Republican voters—Trump won by double digits. .. He seems like he’d be more...

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What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party

The personal call and the timely intervention significantly bolstered Kennedy’s standing among black voters. They also strengthened the political alliance between the Democratic Party and African...

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Sessions to GOP: Adapt to Trump or die

“My advice is to listen and accept the will of the American people, the Republican voters — the Republican Party is the Republican voters,” he added — a pointed reference to Ryan’s suggestion that he,...

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A Third Way in the ‘Respectability Politics’ Debate

Opponents of President Trump can achieve a lot through empathy and loving engagement. .. And protests at airports around the United States may have caused the Trump administration to reverse its...

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Gorsuch’s big fat lie

With a shrewdly calculated innocence, Judge Neil Gorsuch told a big fat lie at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Because it was a lie everyone expected, nobody called it that. “There’s no such thing...

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Trump Appoints Social Conservative To HHS Civil Rights Office And Heads Explode

He is a defender of religious liberty. He believes there are only two sexes. Both of which make him anathema to “public health” professionals who generally believe religion is fine as long as you don’t...

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Dorothy Counts: Desegregation Pioneer in North Carolina

Dorothy Counts (born 1942) was one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School, in Charlotte, North Carolina. After four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her...

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Director Raoul Peck: James Baldwin Was ‘Speaking Directly To Me’

What was expected was to – I’m putting it very brutally – but what was expected was to accept the role of victim and to write from that point of view. And from my point of view, it seemed to me that to...

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How William F. Buckley Became the Gatekeeper of the Conservative Movement

The founder of National Review’s crusade against the John Birch Society helped define American conservatism. In the 1950s, William F. Buckley, perhaps unintentionally, fired the opening salvo in what...

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Malcolm Gladwell: ‘If my books appear oversimplified, then you shouldn’t read...

This argument enraged various sports pundits when Gladwell made it in The New Yorker, where he’s been a fixture since 1996. But it will presumably only enrage them more to learn that he doesn’t fully...

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Vernon Jordan: You can’t get angry. You have to get smart.

We gotta go or else our principal and band leader will loose their jobs. It was a practical decision (34:00) Vernon Jordan: You can’t get angry, you have to get smart.

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Trump Condemns Violence in Charlottesville, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil’

Several of Mr. Trump’s top advisers, including his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly, pressed Mr. Trump to issue a more forceful rebuke after his comment on Saturday that the violence in...

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