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...Americans. Yet at the Republican candidate debate, former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney was the only candidate to even briefly address healthcare. Even more outrageous is that, with the exception of Romney, the other candidates hardly mention healthcare on their campaign websites, arguably the best venue to address American??s concerns...
...This is a man who made the claim—galling to some and glorious to others—that ‘American?? means ‘black’ and not ‘white,’ as was, and still is, the prevailing cultural presumption on which our nation’s artistic life is built,” Gates said in a written citation about the medal...
...statistics rather than stories is both illuminating and incisive.Igo covers the public’s response to the 1929 publication of “Middletown”—a best-selling anthropological study of a Midwestern community—the search for the “average American?? in the public opinion polls of George Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s, and the controversy stirred up by the publication of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953. Her analysis focuses on how the development of surveys and statistics affected the understanding of social...
It’s hard for me—as a half-Muslim myself, but more so as an American??to not see an empty glass in this situation. Not only will these rumors cost a deserving and honest candidate votes, but they further spread the acceptability of xenophobia in our media and our society. Muslims, in particular, have become an easy target for sensationalist media with thriving post-9/11 McCarthyism. Never mind the fact that Obama is a committed Christian; an even-speculative connection to Islam is enough in some people’s eyes...
Sadly, though, the report is saddled with shortcomings. Among the combination of three main policies recommended, the suggested dialogue with the United States, Syria, and Iran immediately stands out. To think that these countries would collaborate with America is almost laughable, given American??s intervention in preventing Syria from interfering in Lebanon and condemnation of Iran’s nuclear pursuits...