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Catholic Church’s Oppression Against Trans People Will Again Backfire
Each time I learn about the Catholic Church’s latest and continuing oppressive and tyrannical statements and actions against members of transgender communities, I cannot help thinking about something...
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Autocrats Hide a True Accounting of the Nation’s Past
Possibly because the notion of Critical Race Theory is so vague to most conservative voters, when Republican candidate for Virginia’s next Governor, Glenn Youngkin, ran in 2021, he labeled himself as...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Never Been the Mensch His Father Had Hoped
Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., in his misguided capacity as celebrity spokesperson for dystopian anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, has crossed a line of even minimum decency and sensitivity by...
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Authoritarianism, Cancellation of Culture, and the Purpose of Schooling
Books refresh our minds to a world of learning we could never imagine. They expose us to knowledge to develop understanding and empathy for people, communities, and concepts outside our lives. Books...
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Whoopi Goldberg and the Controversy of European Jewish Racialization
Actor and comedian, Whoopi Goldberg, set off a firestorm in her position as co-host of the TV talk show, “The View,” on Monday, January 31 during a segment discussing a Tennessee school board banning...
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Brief History of Atrocities, Censorship, and Revisionist Histories Taught in...
Beginning the first day Europeans stepped foot on what has come to be known as “the Americas” up until this very day, decisions over who can be educated and what type of education they may receive...
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If Ukraine Falls So Do Democracies Around the World
Gentle snow falls quietly to the ground here around my home in western Massachusetts as it does likewise across Ukraine today. It cannot cover over, though, the terror, the massive destruction, and...
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Nominations for Acting Awards for Senators in the Confirmation Hearings of...
During this awards season, I propose a series of awards not commonly given at the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, or the Tony Awards. Though not a classically trained though...
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Reflections of an Aids Activist on the Youth Movement for Curricular Inclusion
We’re living through war, but where they’re living it’s peacetime, and we’re all in the same country. This moving quote from Larry Kramer’s play, The Normal Heart (1985), expressed how many of us...
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Republicans’ Agenda List as the Party of “No”
Since the Democrats took over the Oval Office and both houses of Congress in the 2020 elections, national unemployment rates have fallen considerably to pre-pandemic levels, and wages have risen....
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Women’s Rights & LGBTQ Rights Under Attack: Than & Now
“The Republican Party must continue to uphold the principle that every human being, born and unborn, young and old, healthy and disabled, has a fundamental, individual right to life.” From the...
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Goodbye Dearest Urvashi Vaid
Though I did not know Urvashi Vaid well, since the first day we met back in Boston in the late 1970s, I have considered her my friend. I believe she thought of me as her friend as well. During those...
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This Is Who We Are: A Nation Founded and Maintained on Racism
While a young 18-year-old white man pulled the trigger at a Buffalo, New York grocery store shooting 13 and killing 10, most of whom were black, the old and perennial system of patriarchal Christian...
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Speaking the Unspeakable: We Must Repeal the Second Amendment
Buffalo, New York grocery store, an 18-year-old male shooter killed 10 and injured 3 others, most of whom were African Americans. While people were still burying the dead in Buffalo, a 19-year-old male...
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Gun Violence Deniers Deflect Actual Causes of Gun Violence: Hypermasculinity...
Following each high-visible episode of gun violence in the United States, politicians and other community and national leaders spout their often-repeated worn-out platitudes and false claims...
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“Congress Shall Make No Law” and Then Government Makes Laws Stripping Our Rights
Are or should our rights be granted by the government, or, rather, was Thomas Jefferson correct when writing in the Declaration of Independence that “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all...
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Arm Teachers With Higher Salaries, Resources, Curricular Freedom, and the...
Educators in our schools are among the most committed and passionate members of any profession in the United States! Nonetheless, they rank among the most underpaid and underappreciated members of...
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So Newt, Does Your Christ Have a Deep Commitment to Herschel Walker
“You know, I talked to Herschel about this morning and I’ve known Herschel a good while….I think he’s a remarkable person. I think he’s the most important Senate candidate in the country because he...
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Binaries and the Invisibility of Dominance, Please Tell Me Why…?
The thought processes of many young children are quite remarkable before they are fully socialized to incorporate society’s conventions. At the age of five or six, for example, with innocence and...
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The Bat Kols Have the Answers if We Have the Quiet To Hear
Another video of yet another unarmed black man – a son, a father, a lover, a skateboarder, a photographer, an admirer of sunsets – hit the media like a impactful meteor crashing through the Earth’s...
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