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Eugenics Sympathizer Up for Removal from Vermont Literary Award

Matthew McDonald

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was a prolific Vermont author and social activist, and a state award in her name is given to a children's book author every year. But some are pointing out that she supported eugenics in the 1920s and 1930s and that her works have unflattering portrayals of French Canadians, Indians, and others she apparently considered as lesser peoples, and they say her name should be taken off the award.

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Liberal Democratic Female Senators Show No Interest in Testimony About Islamist Abuses of Women and Girls

Matthew McDonald

Two women who grew up in Islamic cultures testified before the U.S. Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery, and female genital mutilation. But they got no questions or apparent interest from U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Kamala Harris of California, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and at least one of them expressed discomfort at even holding the hearing.

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