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Category: American Society
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What’s a vegetarian mom to do when her daughter comes home from school raving about chicken nuggets?
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An excerpt from a new book about a family’s quest to cure their daughter’s debilitating disease by creating a sibling who could help her.
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Things get complicated for same-sex couples filling out the Census forms. Nancy Polikoff looks at the many options for answering the government’s questions.
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Law prof Jay Wexler looks at the recent ruling on the use of “Under God” in the pledge of allegiance and finds the court’s conclusion Constitutionally dubious.
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Maggie Kast had to come to terms with the “R” word in her own life. In this post, she looks at different perspectives on its usage as a slang insult and as a designation.
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The author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like mine became an unlikely advocate for a military-style form of education for kids in the juvenile justice system.
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An unusual immigration asylum case puts German and U.S. law at odds over the right to homeschool children.
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Current Beacon contests and links to good reading.
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The author of The LIfe We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam finds troubling historical parallels in the Haitian orphan debate.
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