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Maddow: Heritage Foundation immigration study is exercise in Republican racism
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow talked about the futility of attempting to do minority outreach when your party’s platform is openly hostile to non-white Americans. She highlighted a study by the Heritage Foundation that said…
Think tank sparks conservative in-fighting with contested immigration report
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High hopes for Mount Fuji as UNESCO decision nears
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Mount Fuji is a step closer to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site.
UNESCO’s advisory body endorsed the Japanese government’s application to register Fuji, which is Japan’s highest mountain and incorporates several geographical and sacred landmarks.
The World Heritage Committee will make its decision in June.
Japan hopes heritage status will boost tourism to the area.
More about: Culture, Japan, Tourism, UNESCO
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“Out of Order”: Why SCOTUS matters
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR spent some of her childhood riding horses and helping out with the chores on her family’s ranch in Arizona. She later wrote frankly about her “rough and tumble childhood” in a memoir of her early years, Lazy B: Growing Up on A Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest (2003). So it’s perhaps not surprising that her latest book, Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court, is such a refreshingly straight-forward, down-to-earth, and readable account of our nation’s highest court from its earliest days to the present. Her goal, she acknowledges, was simply to “write about aspects of the Court’s rich heritage that interested and inspired me,” which is exactly what she’s done.Continue Reading… … Read More
