Category Archives: Current Events

Rotten to the (Common) Core: An Interview with Bianca Tanis

Everything you wanted to know about Common Core testing standards but you didn’t have time to ask because you’re teaching to the test. Continue reading

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Hot Takes and Sangfroid in the City of Light

An American expat in France on the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015. Continue reading

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Dr. Ben Carson Isn’t God, He Just Plays One on TV

Forget the Holocaust, forget Dr. Ben Carson’s opinions on gun control: any physician who is willing to write a memoir called Gifted Hands and speak of himself performing “miracles” needs to be looked on as an out-of-touch megalomaniac. We in the medical field should have all seen this coming. Continue reading

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A Tale of Complicity in the City of Freddie Gray

How slavery helped finance Baltimore’s most storied institution of higher learning. Continue reading

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Saturday Short: The Definition of “Trump”

The real meaning of “trump.” Continue reading

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Hazzard Pay

The Duke boys always escaped from Boss Hogg, but even they can’t outrun the PC police.
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The Reading of Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden reading “New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11” is like Lee Harvey Oswald curling up with “Crossfire.” Continue reading

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