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...tell all. "I'm on a mission," she says. "For much of my adult life I have talked the talk of feminism and then given up my voice to keep relationships intact. And in my third act, presuming I live to be about 90, I've decided to confront it. This is not just my story. It's true for many women. And I want to socially inoculate as many girls, and boys too, as possible to let them know it doesn't have to be this way. Resist...
...year-old group called the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but to monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border Patrol...
...Meanwhile, since ending a five-year hiatus in 1998 - which feuding band members at the time suspected would be permanent - New Order finally discovered the courage to confront its painful origins. "We were so glad to be back together, it just felt the time was right to start playing Joy Division songs again," says Sumner. "Also, it was the best way we could think of remembering Ian. It was almost like bringing him back to life - or as much as we could." Yet another reason for fans to be cheerful...
...generalized sense that American-style democratic capitalism will never again face a serious challenge is one of the most troubling aspects of our current societal discourse. Today, the notion that America might one day have to confront a fully-formed, radical, and expansionist ideology such as Nazism or Soviet Communism is almost laughable. Yet if history has one clear lesson to offer us, it is this: New challenges will inevitably rise and blindness towards them is extremely dangerous...
...century Europe was in a situation eerily similar to ours; free trade reigned, passports were not required for travel between states, and democracy and democratic rule were everywhere ascendant. Even traditionally conservative Germany was moving in a democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing to confront the Kaiser. The most “brutally repressive” political regime of that time—Czarist Russia—was admittedly harsh, yet in over one hundred years it killed less than four thousand people...