To the editor: In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Brown vs. Board of Education that it was unconstitutional for public schools to segregate students by race. ("Murrieta Valley board defies California, will keep policy to tell parents about LGBTQ+ transitioning," April 19) So how did many districts that had to desegregate their schools react? Instead of following the law, many officials put on a decades-long resistance to this well-thought-out decision. I thought of these actions when I...
To the editor: Thanks to the letter writer who explained billionaires' support of former President Trump for the enlightenment and levity. He wrote that the very wealthy support Trump not for the tax cuts, but for their altruism and Trump’s policies to build the economy, increase homeownership and provide medical care. Increasing home ownership must have been why Trump appointed Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary — because when Mnuchin and his partners acquired the failing bank IndyMac and...
Germany’s complicity with Turkey’s repressive regime worries me more than its döner diplomacy“Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret,” must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab in Germany has become something of a symbol of labour migration from Turkey after the second world war. And yes, Nazis get hungry, too. So what? If the consumption of ethnic-minority food was really an obstacle to the ideology of white supremacy,...
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh say we're only slightly more likely to share personality traits with our parents than we are with a random stranger.
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Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) is expected to announce the final results for Class 10 (matric) and Class 12 (Inter) results 2024 this month, as per media reports. However, the official result date from the council is still awaited. Once the results are out, all the students who have appeared for the exam can check their results on the official website of JAC at jacresults.com, jac.jharkhand.gov.in, jharresults.nic.in, by using their roll numbers and roll code. This year the exams for JAC...
“Mate, how much is tattoo removal?” Oh, get rooted. You think I haven’t heard that before? You think that wasn’t the first thing I googled after I saw the atrocity in the mirror of the tattoo parlour, heart plummeting, jaw-dropping? It was contorted, distorted, too big, too high, too heinous. Already in one of the […]
Fish have feelings too Re: Jessica Scott-Reid: Canadian caviar is cruel and costly Fish have feelings too. You think I’m joking? Thanks to The Province and Jessica Scott-Reid for this informative piece. I suspect that people are largely unaware of fish sentience. Fish aren’t relatable: no legs, tail, floppy ears, nice soft fur, cute sounds and […]
Anyone who reads The Washington Post regularly knows that, in its view, the LGBTQ community can do no wrong, that there’s no wretched excess that Read More
This is getting ridiculous. I think Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) is one of the most vile individuals in Congress, and that's even before I factor in his affair with a communist Chinese spy. But I'm pretty sure he loves that kid I've seen in photos. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) hates America and is an anti-Semite—as loathsome a politician as you can get—but the commie loves her trans kid. Joe Biden is the worst ever, but on some level, he loves his kids, even though he turned them into drug-...
“She might be a safe space for girls, and she's probably the Madonna of