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Talking around the table: 2023 edition

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Talking around the table: 2023 edition

Thanksgiving and Friendsgiving celebrations are perfect opportunities to share joys and concerns with people you love. You may not want to address this particular issue; it may feel uncomfortable. I get it. And still, I think you should.

The propaganda trick that sparked a movement

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The propaganda trick that sparked a movement

Thanks to redistricting, all 15 seats on the Texas State Board of Education are up for re-election in the upcoming midterms. Thirty-three candidates are vying for the seats, and as you'd guess, critical race theory comes up frequently in their campaigns. Critical race theory is not, and never

Modern parameters for a conversation

Modern parameters for a conversation

I recently began conversing with someone from my past whose politics are different from mine, via text. We'd reconnected recently and have been going back and forth on things benign, and also less so: like the insurrection and whether the election was stolen. We disagree but this person