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Before college, I had never really been challenged in my political beliefs. I grew up on the shoreline of Connecticut and went to Catholic school there for fourteen years. In that environment, most of the people I interacted with agreed with me morally and politically, at least on most of
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The vast majority of pundits declared Hillary Clinton the decisive winner of this week's debate.
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He grew up in a lower middle-income household. His parents worked three jobs. In the winter they wore jackets inside because they could not afford to run the heat. In the summer they worried about losing their home because they could not make mortgage payments. Though the family struggled, they
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Candidates all want to gain the support of young voters, which is no easy task. Savvy and a little cynical, Millennials don't just want to hear campaign platitudes; they want to be inspired and to hear a positive vision of where our country is headed. Progressives have largely
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Beginning Sunday night with the holiday of Rosh Hashanah that marks the Jewish New Year, and continuing through Yom Kippur the following week, the world's Jews engage in a period of self-examination. As is often the case with Jewish ideas, this particular concept is refreshingly countercultural, especially in
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Last week, while touting the new Census report on income and poverty in America, Barack Obama took credit for $2 a gallon gasoline, and immodestly shouted to his crowd of supporters: "Thank you, Obama." I don't want to sound ungrateful, but given that for eight years
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The choice for voters is clear: a tax cut from Donald Trump or a pay cut courtesy of Hillary Clinton. Trump is promising to slash income taxes to zero for millions of people currently paying them, and to reduce the tax bite on everyone. Clinton isn't cutting income
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"You don't have to go to college." This is the sincere advice I've started giving to parents and teens about going to a four-year, residential, selective college, which has become expensive, wasteful, and hard to justify. I've lived next to Boston'
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