Tuesday, March 27, 2012

What if a Muslim Designed a 9/11 Memorial? A Writer Imagines American Hysteria

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This week news that a woman from Iraq had been found in her home severely beaten revived fears of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiment in the...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Trayvon Martin - It's Not About the Hoodie

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The recent press coverage of the death of Trayvon Martin has ripped the scab off an old wound that never seems to heal and reignited a long...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Getting Ready to go to College? Start Planning for Debt

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It's that time of year when high school seniors obsessively check their email, knowing that any day now, they'll know for sure where...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Out of the Nest and Ready to Fly

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Yesterday, my son Alejandro arrived home from UT-Austin for the last college vacation he'll ever enjoy. In May, he graduates and then ...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Reading Matters: How Education Turns us off to Reading

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You have to love a book whose dedication reads: "Parents, teachers, librarians, please on no account use these pages as an instrument o...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

The War on Contraception: Death by a Thousand State Budget Cuts

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While media attention has focused on the Congressional debate over a provision in the health care bill mandating that religiously-affiliate...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

What Rush Limbaugh's Language Says About Women in our Culture

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For days now the blogosphere and every media outlet has been raging with debate over the import of Rush Limbaugh 's remarks on Sandra Fl...