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Category: POLITICS
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Learning from past mistakes: WW2 US Internment Camps
Refusing to learn from our history is a ridiculous trait that the United States has carried for generations. Let’s stop that.
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Trump, Immigration, and the Courts
President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration into the United States has spurred nationwide protests.
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America The WTF
There are many things I do not know. The details of many professions escape me. I cannot perform surgery. You wouldn’t want me representing you in court or congress or in a sales negotiation. I would not strap on the back of a bucking bull or attempt to drive semi-truck. I don’t know anything about […]
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What was the Women’s March all about?
When I woke up on Saturday morning, I didn’t want to go. The snow was pounding down outside, and my hips ached from the cold dampness of it all. Idaho is a red state, and it was possible that like lots of other events, this would be 300 people shivering together on the statehouse steps. […]
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What if politicians were cast in Mean Girls
Politics can feel an awful lot like high school with the cliques and in-fighting. North Shore High School, to be exact.
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Repealing Obamacare isn’t the answer
Imagine watching the leaders of our nation discuss their plans to take away one of the biggest things keeping you alive. That hypothetical is a serious reality that someone I love dearly has faced every single day for years. My best friend, Amanda, has lived with a serious chronic illness for nearly a decade and […]
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Senator Chuck Grassley owes the American public an apology – and a refund
It’s been exactly 287 days since the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, told the American public “fuck you.” That was the day they decided, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, that they no longer gave a damn about what the voters want. They no longer work […]
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I’m not leaving my red state
Consider this the opposite of a “Why I’m Leaving New York” thinkpiece. I’m a lifelong Democrat, born in Texas and raised in the notably liberal college town of Lawrence, Kansas. I’m pro-choice, pro-equality, a childhood beneficiary of programs like WIC and Section 8, a graduate of the University of Kansas thanks in part to Pell […]
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Holiday 2016 gift guide for a post-election America
What do you get the country that hates everything? (h/t Nicole) Sure, the citizens of the United States are still reeling from the most divisive election in quite some time, but that doesn’t mean that we’ll stop being us. Capitalism rules, for now, so why not use its last gasps to make sure we’re ready […]
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