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Sentenced as Students: How to Begin Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Policy makers have for far too long placed priority on maintaining law and order over practicing justice—a child’s educational environment is one of the first places to rectify this failure.
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Sexy Socialism
Khaki pants and an ill-fitting blazer are a give away sign that you consider yourself “pro-life” and disagree with sex before marriage—pretending of course that the latter is even a choice.
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Belief-Scarring: Why Our Economic Wounds May Last
After this pandemic, the risk of another may be even lower than before. But it won’t feel that way. That matters.
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Progressivism? A White Lie
Despite its history as the heartland of progressive politics and the stereotype of Midwestern nice, Wisconsin, and particularly small town Wisconsin, still has the scars of segregation.
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Made in America: COVID-19 and the United States’ Immigrant Students
The trajectory of the country will be determined in larger and larger part by those who choose it, rather than those who are born into it.
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Tending Our Garden: The United States and the Free World
Often referred to as the “policeman of the world,” the nation has struggled to handle our self-given mandate of fostering democracy and encouraging respect for the rule of law.
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From J.K. Rowling to the Clinic
We can recognize a reckless dismissal of trans identity in many corners of our society. When we see it acted upon by those whose actions directly impact our health and well-being—health care professionals, lawmakers, law enforcement—we understand just how life threatening such attitudes can be.
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Sustaining Our Light
As one meteoric trauma follows another, our continued capacity for pioneering keeps our heads above water—it keeps us breathing; it keeps us from suffocating under the weight of our crumbling reality.