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Lawmakers who examined various incarnations of dual-enrollment programs were stunned to find students earning college credits for taking gym.
It appears that biology plays a powerful role in our internalized sense of gender as well as our preference for gendered behaviors (allowing for non-trivial social influences, particular for the latter).
A compulsory voting law—practiced in a number of democracies around the world, including Australia and Belgium—makes voting a civic requirement for all citizens.
The protests went on for a few weeks, until the regime successfully repressed them with a violent crackdown, but economic conditions only worsened.
The emerging configuration of the new urban politics threatens many of the gains made over the past two decades.
Finding ways to coexist is challenging, in part because the better we are at coexisting, the more diversity we attract, and the more diversity we attract, the more difficult it becomes to persuasively accommodate all competing values.
But pulling off the kind of manipulative narcissism that privileges ideological dogma over real community health needs—that’s the mark of a true pro.
One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods.
Republicans balk at the idea of UBI because it seems like an extreme version of your standard government handout. But it isn’t.
It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do.
Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass.
The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins.
The total value of the sex trade could be said to be the value of the net transfer of wealth from men to women.
Chilean middle class has seen its fortunes becomes more precarious, with many families staying afloat only through borrowing.