#Political

I studied political science and English together in college. Reading conservative legislation blew holes in my flawed concept of what being a republican was. I was told throughout my childhood
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Spain, 1936. Five years of escalating political tension explodes into widespread violence. Although scantly covered by popular histories, the bitter struggle that followed would set the stage for World War
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Aarogya Setu's website says it was developed by the National Informatics Centre & the Information Technology Ministry but according to the Central Information Commission, various ministries & departments had given
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1/ Trump has indeed lost a fortune as president. One of the great ironies is that if he'd just divested at the start, then plowed the proceeds into the S&P
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Godi Media - Lapdog journalism: was Indian TV media ever free? 1/ In 80s, national news channel was under govt. It was showing peaceful last rites of Indira Gandhi and
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Today I've been thinking of 2020 less as the year of unexpected shocks & catastrophes more as the year predictions came true. For decades concerned people have studied the likelihood
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Yesterday I posted this poll out of plain curiosity but the results kept nagging me.A few people have replied No when asked if they would boycott Chinese goods. A few
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That isn’t enough for upballot candidates to bother with. I’m not even sure if their attention would mean as much to Huddleston’s base as her own attention does. She *knows*
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Governor, we need to cooperate more. A better message needs to be sent. And now that a couple days has gone by since the plot to attack us both has
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My favorite political ideology is Liberalism. In a country heavily influenced by the past, we’ve really been limited and unable to completely achieve liberty, equality, and freedom. We’ve been by
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From Totally Under Control: Caroline ChenHealthcare Reporter ProPublica "Because South Korea had already started ramping up diagnostic test production, they were able to seek out every member of this church
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I hope this isn't too political.Dear @YouTube.Both of the major parties are running ads that are not appropriate for injection into content that targets 3-to-6-year-olds.Small children don't need to know
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Cats is a fascinating movie because it's both so bad it's good and just plain bad at the same time. There's generally a pretty clear-cut line between funny and unfunny
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People “defend Darwin” as if it’s a neutral “purely scientific” science discovered by divine revelation when Darwin went “hm what if I applied Malthus to the Entirety of Being?”— &
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In the controversy around Modern Monetary Theory, both its advocates and its critics (for the most part) take MMT at face value as a theory of money, and so go
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The only way to meaningfully fight against such measures and threats is through collective struggle with tenured, tenure-track, adjunct, and graduate faculty, as well as with students and workers, something
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