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The Learning Network
What’s Going On in This Picture? | Nov. 28, 2016
Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.A poster of a white American is being effaced in India.
The people doing the effacement are enjoying the act.
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Opinion
Donald Trump’s Lies About the Popular Vote
The president-elect, feeling threatened by Hillary Clinton’s big popular-vote margin, is spreading a lie that millions of people voted illegally.Donald Trump is a brat and a bully.
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Opinion
The Soldier Donald Trump Called a Traitor
The president-elect’s campaign crusade against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl makes it unlikely that the former Taliban hostage can get a fair trial.Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is serving as a scapegoat for the failure in Afghanistan.
He will be lucky to escape execution.
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Real Estate
Low-Income Housing: Why Not in My Neighborhood?
Is there any basis for fears that property values may suffer when low-income housing is built nearby?Property values seem to be independent of low income individuals.
Property values depend on the income generated by the property and the mortgage rate. Low income housing is separate from this pricing mechanism.
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Business Day
Delta Air Lines Bans Trump Supporter for Disrupting Flight
The man shouted anti-Hillary Clinton comments at fellow passengers on a flight from Atlanta this month, the airline said.Disruption is a banning offense.
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World
Viewing Fidel Castro’s Revolution: 50 Years. Three Generations. One Family.
The clash of emotions common in Cuban families is reflected in a grandfather’s loyalty to Mr. Castro and a granddaughter’s glum view of conditions in her country.Refugees are not immigrants.
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Opinion
Facebook Shouldn’t Fact-Check
It’s dangerous to promise that a social network will vet what’s true.Facebook spreads rumors.
Rumors are not news.
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U.S.
Trump Threatens to Roll Back Obama’s Cuba Policy
In a post on Twitter, he said he would “terminate” the pact President Obama made if Cuba is unwilling to make “a better deal for the Cuban people.”Trump would like to erase Obama.
The effort should destroy Trump.
His supporters will remain.
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U.S.
Miami’s Cuban Exiles Celebrate Castro’s Death
For many Cuban-Americans, still bitter over the revolution that tore their families from their homes, it was a celebration long in coming.Exiles are not immigrants.
The exiled Cubans will be disappointed.
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Opinion
Threatening Cuba Will Backfire
Rolling back the Obama administration’s policy of pragmatic engagement with Cuba would be monumentally misguided.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
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