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โ€œThe Last Stand of Freedom in Americaโ€

Zhandarka Kurti

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โ€œHow many of you have an easy life?โ€ the speaker asked the audience. To his dismay a handful of people raised their hands. โ€œWell, okay, I guess some of you have it good, but many of ...

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Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trumpโ€™s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry โ€œStop the Steal!โ€ The โ€œstealโ€ in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party ...

2020 Election–Impressions and Reflections

John Garvey

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America appears to be divided into three more or less equal parts, at least when it comes to the election results.ย  Thus far, just under 78 million people voted for Biden; about 73 million voted for ...

To Make New England Go Red

Tanzeem Ajmiri

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As I switched tabs on my computer back and forth between the documentary on Ancient Egypt and the election night results, my phone buzzed. It was my cousin informing me that Trump was leading in Rhode ...

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What Does Religion Have to Do with It?

John Garvey

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My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that.ย  She is, without question, a conservative.ย  Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply ...

Rehearsals (Clowns Included)

John Garvey

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A couple of weeks ago, an author named Jack Luna explored the significance of the Trump-supporting car/truck and boat parades on Labor Day: โ€œWith images of raucous white Americans on parade freshly troubling me, I kept ...

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The Show Must Go On

Jarrod Shanahan

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โ€œItโ€™s so great that we are all together in one place,โ€ a middle-aged white woman gushed, almost directly in my ear. โ€œTrump was sent by God!โ€ I had other theories, but she was right about one ...

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“Everyone Agrees”

John Garvey

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When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that โ€œEveryone agreesโ€, I think itโ€™s time to pay attention.ย  There are not too many instances where everybody agreesโ€”except about something thatโ€™s really ...

Dead Teachers Can’t Teach

Zhandarka Kurti

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Today, August 3rd teachers in Knoxville, Tennessee report to work. Despite climbing COVID rates and fears and anxieties of teachers, parents and students, the superintendent of Knox County schools has not backtracked from his plan to ...

Politics from a Baby Boomer

Tanzeem Ajmiri

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In March of this year, a Hard Crackers correspondent took a trip to New Hampshire to visit a friend. It was her first time being in a place that was majority white and she was interested ...

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