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Tag: US politics

Vice President Kamala Harris at a Pentagon briefing
May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

What if?

People glued to their phones
March 9, 2025April 9, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

The antidote to doomscrolling

Trump supporters at a rally
February 27, 2025March 9, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

No, we can’t “disagree and still be friends”

Tax forms
February 22, 2025February 27, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

Taxes and the social contract

Trump's idea of a gourmet feast: hamburgers
February 3, 2025February 11, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

The Poverty Diet

Christopher Plummer shows what to do with those flags in the Sound of Music.
January 25, 2025February 3, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

How to fight back

Announcement of the TikTok ban
January 18, 2025January 25, 2025 Matthew Arnold Stern

The TikTok ban

Antique hourglass and clocks
December 13, 2024December 20, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

Halfway between shock and horror

Our cat Gretel
October 10, 2024October 31, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

“The least of these”

Vice President Kamala Harris at a Pentagon briefing
July 29, 2024August 9, 2024 Matthew Arnold Stern

Why I’m voting for Kamala Harris for president

Plaque for the World Trade Center Sphere in Lower Manhattan. Taken in 2002.
September 10, 2023 Matthew Arnold Stern

What happened to 9/11?

An innocent child. Photo from Pixnio.
July 21, 2023 Matthew Arnold Stern

Protecting our children’s innocence

Model of the Anne Frank House. Image from Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anne_Frank_House_Model.JPG
July 13, 2023July 13, 2023 Matthew Arnold Stern

Allyship and the Anne Frank question

Young people have protested for various causes for years
April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 Matthew Arnold Stern

A warning to Generations Z and Alpha

February 17, 2016February 17, 2016 Matthew Arnold Stern

Civics 101

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