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I’ve been digging into some of the stories of people getting fired for supposed racism.What I found was companies cravenly sacrificing employees—some of them working-class people of color—who did nothing

We should make Juneteenth a national holiday.Here’s why.[Thread.] The most important and straightforward reason is that we do not, at this point, have a national holiday that recognizes the sin

I've been grappling with an apparent paradox:According to postmodernists, there is no such thing as truth. I disagree. But as many institutions come to adopt postmodernist premises, the idea that

A big unanswered questions about COVID-19 is the true infection rate. How many people have already had it?As testing ramps up, there are reports of random samples and/or antibody tests