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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters The Problem With Helicopter Colleges
The Harvard professor Steven Pinker objects to a proposal to ban various undergraduate social clubs, citing a model of higher education that many elite institutions are rejecting.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Do Unto Other Harvard Students
One of America’s most prestigious colleges may try to force its undergraduates to be more egalitarian towards one another––but not to anyone else.
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Courtesy of Jennifer LeMay What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a persistent problem in law enforcement.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why Donald Trump's Russia Denials Can No Longer Be Believed
His son’s attempt to get dirt on Hillary Clinton shows the president to be either deeply clueless about his own campaign, or a shameless liar.
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Max Becherer / AP An Ill-Advised Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activists
A Baton Rouge police officer blames the movement and its leaders for a killer’s acts.
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Reuters / Amr Dalsh A College Student Who Seeks to Learn Rather Than to Teach
Surrounded by cultural pressures to dislike the “other,” one undergraduate marshals empathy and charity.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Book That Predicted Trump’s Rise Offers the Left a Roadmap for Defeating Him
Twenty years ago, Richard Rorty warned that “a spectatorial, disgusted, mocking Left” would give rise to a populist demagogue. Is it ready now to take his advice?
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Mark Kauzlarich/ Reuters Khizr Khan: 'Go Seek Your Neighbor'
The Gold Star parent who made headlines at the Democratic National Convention offers advice on how citizens can “materially progress the American experiment.”
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters How Civic Obligations, Education, and Federalism Can Save America
Three observers of American politics fear deepening division and polarization, and offer different proscriptions for the best way forward.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters David Petraeus Sends Mixed Messages on War Powers
The retired general urges Congress to step up and address where the U.S. military should be waging war, even as he praises an extra-constitutional strike on Syria.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Columbia Professor's Critique of Campus Politics
John McWhorter argues that an influential minority of college students are misusing concepts like safe spaces and white supremacy as performative cudgels––and that administrators and faculty members ought to do more to teach them the errors of their ways.
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Kristina Barker / Reuters A Call to Police Comity Among Political Allies, Not Opponents
Peter Wehner argues that “we need people within our own political tribe to point out the limitations and dangers of excessive political tribalism, and how it can become an obstacle to intellectual honesty.”
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Parents Share How They Protect Their Kids Online
Advice for anyone trying to figure out how to balance the perils of the digital world with its benefits.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters What Right-Wing Populist Movements Share: Blaming Immigrants
Fareed Zakaria argues that the core of Donald Trump’s message in 2016 was, “your life sucks—it's because of Mexicans, Chinese people, and Muslims.”
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Wall Street Journal's Editor: Beware Calling Donald Trump a Liar
Gerard Baker thinks the president lies all the time, but insists that applying that appellation puts too high a burden on news organizations.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters GE CEO Criticizes President Trump on China and the Paris Accords
The corporate leader argued that United States cedes national advantages and projects weakness when it disengages from the world.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Getting Along Despite the Threat of Deportation
Maria Hinojosa’s bittersweet celebration of immigrant perseverance in America
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Federalism Is Dead, Long Live Federalism
A Yale law professor argues that America has moved past the relationship among states that the Framers envisioned––but that a new federalism is serving the country well in its stead.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Audiences Cultivate the Power of Compassion'
A theater director believes her profession can contribute to the project of peaceful coexistence in America.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What Do You Tell Your Kids About Online Privacy?
A call for parents to share the values and practices that they instill around digital life–and their fears about what could go wrong.
