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Category: American Society
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Jeremy Adam Smith looks at how kids deal with race and what parents can do to guide them.
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With the economy in trouble and budgets tight, fewer people will be traveling this Thanksgiving, but the authors of The Lonely American remind us why going “home for the holidays” matters.
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Clare Dunsford discusses the implications of genetic testing and the promising start of the Genetic Information Non Discrimination Act toward protecting against genetic discrimination.
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Artist Jamar Nicholas discusses his adaptation of Geoffrey Canada’s Fist Stick Knife Gun, and how Canada’s memoir of growing up in the South Bronx resonated with memories of his own childhood in Philadelphia.
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Penny Coleman looks at the problem of sexual assault in the military, where just 8 percent of sexual assaults are referred to court martial and the victims have to pay for their own rape kits unless they are treated in military or VA facilities.
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This anonymous poem was blown into a slit trench in Tunisia during a heavy bombardment in the early days of World War II. It was included in Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times, edited by Joan Murray. A Soldier—His Prayer Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: my little…
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"The Poet Goes to Indiana" by Mary Oliver was featured on the Writer's Almanac recently. Bill Ayers was interviewed by the Washington Post for this piece that ran that day after the election—the New Yorker's David Remnick was there, too. Last week, Garry Trudeau offered this commentary on the pre-election media. On Slate, one more…
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In case you haven’t heard, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is an “average Alaskan hockey mom.” For anyone who didn’t grow up on skates, like I did, it’s a relatively new colloquial term that plays off of the term “soccer moms,” a moniker used extensively in the 1996 election season to neatly describe the…
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