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From an exchange on Signal between Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and SiegedSec, a group of self-described “gay ...

Does anyone believe in college education anymore? Republicans certainly don’t—a mere 19 percent of them expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education in a Gallup poll ...

Factor by which Americans are more likely to disapprove of a woman’s election to the presidency than a person of color’s ...

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In the summer of 2023, California legislators approved a bill banning discrimination on the grounds of caste. Defined in the bill as “an individual’s perceived position in a system of social ...

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