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This Republican Apologizes For His Offensive Tweets, Says He Made A 180 — And Blames Fox News

In March, we published a story about a young man who was planning on running for office. The Trump-supporting Republican, who had yet to file for elections, insulted black people, Mexican-Americans, and said Muslims belong in “internment camps.” A few hours after the article surfaced on social media, Earl Blumenfrucht

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Math, Meritocracy and Race – Brooklyn College Professor Defends Her Work

Photo: Brooklyn CollegeFLATBUSH – Dr. Laurie Rubel published an article in the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education about how we teach math in schools, and the right-wing media is out to get her. The article explores equity-directed instructional practices in teaching math in urban schools that are highly segregated, the role

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Downsides To Plastic Bag Bans? Studies Suggest Risk Alongside Benefits

Source: Urban Woodswalker via flickrThere might be reason for the City Council to pause on their plans to limit the use of plastic bags, and it concerns health and safety. As we wrote in our article on the City Council’s effort to charge a 10-cent fee to anyone given

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Op-Ed: Rush To Report Is Not Always The Right Decision

President Harry S. Truman gets a chuckle out of the November 3, 1948 edition of the Chicago Tribune, with the famously inaccurate headline. Source: National ArchivesBETWEEN THE LINES: Every American news enterprise was most likely primed and on its toes for last Thursday’s landmark Supreme Court of the United

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VIDEO: Nadler On Student Loan Amnesty

The above video, which was uploaded to Youtube by CongressmanNadler, shows Nadler on Fox News defending legislation that will cut private lending institutions out of the federal student loan process, as well as offer amnesty to students after a certain number of 20 years, rather than 25. The law, which