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Category: American Society
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Teachers aren’t afraid of their students, school shooters, or angry helicopter parents. What scares them most?
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Jay Michaelson looks at Scalia’s legalistic argles and bargles.
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Eboo Patel writes about a James Baldwin essay that helped guide him as an activist and writer.
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Is marriage a personal commitment or a public institution? E. J. Graff explains how it is an intersection of both.
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The Supreme Court’s opinion in the DOMA case illustrates how it is the marriage equality side that truly has had the best interests of children at heart all along.
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Opponents of marriage equality find themselves arguing both that the marriage debate is about children and that marriage doesn’t matter to kids of LGBT parents.
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Michael Bronski discusses how the violence of the Civil War influenced ideas of masculinity in America.
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The ethics of outing have long been debated, but what if it’s done posthumously? Rodger Streitmatter discusses Outlaw Marriages and why he feels historical outing is justified.
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Susan Katz Miller is a former Newsweek reporter and former US correspondent for New Scientist. She blogs on interfaith families for the Huffington Post and OnBeingBoth.com. She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and two interfaith teenagers. Her book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, will be published by Beacon…
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If you take the time to watch one TED Talk this week, make it this one. Geoffrey Canada is an educational innovator, and in this video (part of which appeared on PBS) he makes a powerful argument for changing the way we think about public education. Canada knows how to help kids achieve great things:…
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