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Dec 15, 2024 | 
freebeacon.com | Naomi Riley
"I think it is fairly obvious," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in 1940, "that women have voted on most questions as individuals and not as a group, in much the same way that men do, and that they are influenced by their environment and their experience and background just as men are." Eighty-five years later, it seems many in this country have not absorbed Roosevelt’s lesson.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Naomi Riley
Who are the victims when it comes to "deaths of despair"? Recent research has focused on the racial makeup of these tragedies - drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths and suicides. According to a recent study, the number of Black people and Native Americans in this category has been growing while the number of white people has been going down.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Naomi Riley
Was 2024 the "fentanyl election"? A recent article in The New Yorker by Benjamin Wallace-Wells suggests that the effect of the drug crisis on certain communities made their residents more likely to vote for Donald Trump. Perhaps this was another so-called sleeper issue. Though voters didn't mention it like they did the economy and democracy, the issue was indeed weighing on people's minds in the voting booth.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
commentary.org | Naomi Riley
In 1947, the College Board opened an office in Berkeley, California. Previously, from the turn of the century onward, the organization had been administering entrance examinations for schools in the Northeast, and in 1926 it created and began using the original Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Russell Warne |Aurele Aaron Tobelem |Naomi Riley |Angel Eduardo
In March, Sarah Carr—a professor of journalism and contributor to the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Slate—published an essay in the Hechinger Report titled, “How Flawed IQ Tests Prevent Kids from Getting Help in School.” Reliance on IQ tests in many US schools, she wrote, “is now slowly starting to ebb after decades of research showing their potential for racial and class bias, among other issues.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Aurele Aaron Tobelem |Naomi Riley |Angel Eduardo
On the 23rd of October, I sat down in Sydney, Australia, with the esteemed ethicist and theologian Nigel Biggar—Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford—to discuss King Charles’ visit to Australia, whether Australia should cut ties with the British monarchy and become a republic, what it means to be a patriot, far-left activism, cancel culture, and whether we should be ashamed of our colonial past.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Naomi Riley
Hurt people hurt people. Though this phrase is sometimes invoked to excuse bad behavior, there's an argument that it should be guiding public policy. A devastating article from Pro Publica last week tells the story of two Wisconsin teens, Maylia and Jack. At the age of 15, Maylia Sotelo was charged with homicide - as an adult - for providing fentanyl to Jack McDonough, who died from it. Police had been tracking Maylia for months before she sold the fatal dose to Jack.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Naomi Riley
“Almost 9,000 children in California foster care could soon be taken from homes over insurance crisis,” reads one among a dozen similar headlines that have appeared in West Coast media over recent weeks. The stories all suggest a situation that snuck up on the child-welfare establishment and political leaders. Yet this problem has simmered for years, if not decades. Soon the crisis will be everywhere, not just in California.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Naomi Riley
"Leave a cheater, gain a life" is the mantra of cartoonist Tracy Schorn, who has created a blog and an internet community around the idea that marital infidelity is a form of abuse, as a recent article in The New York Times put it. Infidelity is, according to Schorn, solely the fault of the cheater.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Naomi Riley
Every week, The Wall Street Journal features an interview with a celebrity about his or her childhood home and, by extension, his or her childhood. Actress Heather Graham recently described how her mother was supportive of her decision to go work in movies, but her father was not. And then she explains: "I stopped talking to my parents when I was 25, and I'm estranged from them now. My friends are proud of me, and I'm proud of myself.
