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San Francisco, Calif., March 20, 2020 (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) California’s population dropped in 2020 for the first time in the state’s recorded history. The Golden State lost 182,083 people in 2020, according to data from the state Department of Finance. State officials attributed the decline to a combination of COVID-19 deaths, a decreasing birth rate, and a
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(Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters) The firing of a tenured professor at Linfield University in Oregon without a hearing has sparked a controversy involving allegations of anti-Semitism, racism, and claims that sexual harassment allegations against members of the Board of Trustees were not properly handled. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor of English and Shakespeare scholar, was fired from
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Then-president Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 8, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) It’s the best strategy for identifying leaders and a platform that can unite the entire potential Republican electorate. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Republican Party has — this is not news — a
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(Pixabay) Robert VerBruggen makes a strong case against Biden’s child-care proposal, and I agree with all of it except for one aside. While the proposal stacks the deck against families with “stay-at-home” parents (who are mostly mothers), he writes that other existing policies are unfair in the opposite direction: “In some ways the status quo
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Zhang Jun, China’s Ambassador to the United Nations speaks at a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, N.Y., March 10, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) China’s presidency of the Security Council this month will tell us much about its ambitions to reshape the international order. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t the start of
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Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies at the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, April 15, 2021. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) It is time for everybody to embrace their liberation from COVID-19 prison. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the film The Shawshank Redemption, an elderly character named Brooks gets released after 50 years
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The chairman of the Lamar County Democrats in Texas used a racial slur against Republican Senator Tim Scott last week, prompting calls for his resignation. Surprisingly, he resigned from his position and even apologized. FOX News reported: Texas Democratic official resigns after calling Tim Scott an ‘oreo’ TRENDING: BREAKING REPORT: Biden DOJ to Interfere with
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(Getty Images) The American Families Plan effectively bribes parents to use professional child care. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hey don’t call ’em the “mommy wars” for nothing. For couples with young kids, work and child care can be incredibly fraught topics. There are no perfect options, just trade-offs that different couples, with different values and
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Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) The Texas senate has approved in a 18–13 vote a bill to allow Texans to carry handguns without a license. House Bill 1927 would eliminate the requirement for Texas citizens to acquire a permit to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from owning
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A young man tests a Sig Sauer rifle during the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, May 5, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) There are reasons to be skeptical of an effort to do away with Texas’s requirement of a permit to carry firearms in public. The state of Texas is considering a “constitutional
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(kieferpix/Getty Images) The U.S. fertility rate fell to a record low in 2020, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday. The total fertility rate, or the number of babies a woman is projected to have during her lifetime, fell to 1.64 in 2020, the lowest since tracking began
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Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.,) during Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2021 (Demetrius Freeman/Reuters) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) on Tuesday defended his fist pump to protesters outside of the Capitol on January 6, calling it a “slur” to conflate peaceful demonstrators with the
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(Thinkstock) Critics of a Texas bill that blocks “action civics” (mandatory political protesting for course credit) and Critical Race Theory (attacks on “whiteness,” “Euro-Centrism,” etc.) are off the mark. Their complaints are outlined in an article for the Dallas Morning News that does little to explain the powerful arguments in favor of the bill (HB
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