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[ad_1] Austin Sarat On July 6, the New York Times published an editorial entitled “A Great University Undermines Its Mission.” I turned to it eagerly, expecting to see a stirring defense of what I call the civic and purposes of higher education. Instead, the editorial highlighted the uproar among faculty at the University of California over the consequences of the university’s 2020 decision to end the use of SATs in its admissions process throughout the University of California system. It discussed letters from hundreds of faculty members in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities calling on the university’s…

[ad_1] Endrick after missing an opportunity versus Norway. (Screen capture from video posted to X.) After years of waiting for a small lawsuit from a car accident to settle, I moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1991. I had never visited Brazil before, but I was not there as a tourist. As a young man, I had made a decision that I did not want to spend the rest of my life living in a country where you only got 2 weeks of vacation a year. After a lot of informal research talking to fellow bellhops at the Palmer House…

[ad_1] Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Mary Katherine Ham discuss Graham Platner withdrawing from the Maine Senate race — what it means for the Democratic Party and one of the country’s most closely watched races.Carolina Lumetta joins to break down the latest from President Trump, as the Iran War appears to pick up where it left off. She explains the mysterious new “Freedom Fuel” discount gas stations the White House is promoting, and whether Trump will allow the bipartisan housing bill to become law.The show closes with Tom, Carl, and Mary Katherine Ham discussing the…

[ad_1] What are the implications for our new endless war in the Middle East? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Jeffrey D. Sachs  China Daily On Saturday, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. The occasion deserves reflection — not only on what the US has become, but on the founding principles it has so often forgotten. Three of those principles, set out by the founders themselves, would, if remembered today, transform the conduct of US foreign policy and improve the prospects for global peace. The first is contained in the opening of the Declaration of Independence. The American colonists explained their decision to separate from Britain by appealing to “a decent…

[ad_1] Former Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has outrun accusations of an illegal adoption and ritualistic child abuse after attorneys within US Homeland Security Investigations shuttered an investigation into his actions. In an exclusive interview with The Last American Vagabond, a former Homeland Security Investigations analyst reveals how he was targeted by the US government for pursuing an investigation into a powerful Utah politician following a controversial adoption of a Native American baby. The analyst said that he and his colleague were sidelined after attempting to subpoena the Mormon Church’s internal hotline for reporting sexual abuse as part of their investigation.…

[ad_1] For decades, Tehran has used mass spectacles to project strength. Khamenei’s funeral reveals how much of that strength is actually performance, writes Masih Alinejad. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] @RealCandaceO @AndrewKolvet Hello Mrs. Owens,You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Aaron Kirshenbaum Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French government also counted over 2,000 excess deaths during the June heatwaves. At the same time, this past weekend, a devastating super typhoon hit the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, leaving islands like Rota, where 2,000 people live, without running water and most buildings impacted.  In both cases, the people least responsible for the climate crisis are the most vulnerable to its effects. And in both cases, people’s ability…

[ad_1] Still from Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror. “The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.” – Roberto Bolaño ICE has killed again. This time in Houston. Once again, ICE shot and killed someone in their car. Once again, ICE claims the shooting was justified. That ICE agents feared for their lives. That the person they shot had a weapon. The weapon? A car. The car they were driving when they were pulled over for no reason other than how they looked.…