Author: Oliver Parker
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Michigan State University Professor Accused of Forcing Students to Donate to Left-Wing Political Groups
A professor at Michigan State University has been accused of requiring students to pay a $99 subscription fee to join an online “community” controlled by the professor and secretly used to donate funds to left-wing political groups, including Planned Parenthood. The professor, Amy Wisner, compelled nearly 600 students in the spring semester to pay the…
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The Indian Child Welfare Act: How It Fails Vulnerable Children in Foster Care
The United States has been accused of prioritizing generic Indian culture over the welfare of individual children who find their way into the foster-care system. This is due to a four-decades-old law that essentially treats Indian children in foster care as second-class citizens. The Supreme Court had the opportunity to help these vulnerable children in…
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Examining the Flaws in Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, by America”
Sociologist Matthew Desmond poses a simple question in his new book, Poverty, by America: “Why is there so much poverty in America?” Desmond, a MacArthur genius-grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted, seeks to answer this question both as a social scientist and as a “poverty abolitionist.” He argues that we collectively exploit the…
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Why Donald Trump’s Continued Political Career is a Waste of Precious Resources
Donald Trump’s continued political career is a waste of precious resources for the conservative movement, the Republican Party, and the American Right. Every day spent on Trump’s personal interests redirects resources away from causes that matter to ordinary Americans and the issues we believe in. Our political energy, attention, and effort are finite, and there…