Category: politics
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Why being poor is so expensive
For several years in my early twenties I worked at Starbucks. It was a decent paying job and gave full benefits to employees working a minimum of 20 hours a week which, in the early aughts, was a rare thing. I had access to an amazing healthcare plan for $30 a paycheck, had dental and…
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Why criticism is not disparagement
The other day I ran across a social media post from an acquaintance complaining at length about how the National Archives website placed a “harmful language” disclaimer on (gasp!) the United States Constitution. Now, the post made it seem like my acquaintance was just randomly perusing some historical papers, minding their own patriotic business, when…