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Capitalism is killing the middle class
feature Few like to admit it, but globalization and technology have triggered an economic revolution that’s “hostile to the middle-class majority,” said Chrystia Freeland at NYTimes.com.
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Infidelity tells us little about leaders
feature Many of history’s greatest leaders cheated on their wives: Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Martin Luther King Jr., to name just three, said Victor Davis Hanson at NationalReview.com.
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Stop coddling underworked professors
feature Most college professors are underworked and overpaid.
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Why a college education is overrated
feature High school students who show no aptitude for academics are better off earning a career-oriented associate degree, joining the military, or enrolling in job-training programs, said Marty Nemko in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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America, the chosen nation
feature On what do politicians base their claims about America’s divine role? asked Andrew Bacevich at the Los Angeles Times.
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Millions of closeted gay men
feature “What percent of American men are gay?”
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Why Iranians can’t eat chicken
feature Even in a nation rife with paranoid government prohibitions, the chicken ban marks a “bizarre’’ new low.
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Our culture’s worship of celebrity
feature It was in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age that the modern concept of celebrity was born.
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Quote of the week: Nicholas D. Kristof
feature From The New York Times: “In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches. One is the rigid, all-male Vatican hierarchy ...
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Our country’s true job creators
feature Our country’s prosperity has always required a strong, vibrant middle class, whose consumer hunger is the engine that creates wealth for everyone, said Nick Hanauer at Bloomberg.com.
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The false benevolence of Mother Nature
feature Our beloved Earth, it turns out, is quite a nasty place, said Drake Bennett in The Boston Globe.
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5 smart reads for the weekend
feature An investigation into Junior Seau's tragic suicide. A profile of the brother-and-sister team behind Cloud Atlas. And more compelling, of-the-moment stories to dive into
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A House that’s stuck in the 1950s
feature The House of Representatives doesn’t represent America as it really is today.
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Dehumanizing Hispanics as ‘illegals’
feature It’s “the latest in a long line of euphemisms that politicians use to signal their antipathy to a reviled racial or ethnic group, in this case, Latinos,” said Peter Beinart at TheDailyBeast.com.
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