In the face of discrimination, the ethnic group rallied around its most famous historic member, indirectly prompting the creation of a federal holiday. The group? Italian Americans. The...
October 15, 2014
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The recent crisis of immigrant children flooding across the US might have ebbed a bit… but there are many more border crises available to fill in the void. Just last week, a mass grave was...
October 13, 2014
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3:23 PM
Believe it or not, there’s a national election coming up in a few weeks. Don’t worry, if you haven’t been tuned in to the race so far, you’re not the only one. Though the results of the...
October 13, 2014
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3:10 PM
It’s not a secret that the Secret Service is in the dumps. Last week the Director resigned, leaving us thinking – what’s next for the President’s bodyguard? Well, we can probably guess...
October 10, 2014
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4:08 AM
The Supreme Court took a new approach to same-sex marriage Monday It shut up. The nation’s highest authority for determining the meaning of the law has declined to comment on the issue- at...
October 10, 2014
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4:07 AM
A few weeks ago, the HBO program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (which is an excellent comedy/news/investigative journalism show that gets USDemocrazy’s full endorsement) tackled the subject...
October 10, 2014
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4:06 AM
It’s Oktoberfest! You know what that means… Lots of Beer! Beer! Beer!… Often called in laymen terms “the German St. Patrick’s day”, Oktoberfest has long beer halls that are set at the...
October 10, 2014
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4:03 AM
If you’ve turned on almost any news source, chances are you’ve gotten an earful and a half about the death of Thomas Duncan–the first human life lost to Ebola on American soil. Recent figures...
October 8, 2014
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6:51 PM
Well, this might take awhile to live down. As it turns out, Thomas Duncan, now the first man in the U.S. with the Ebola virus, could’ve been isolated and treated by a Dallas hospital much...
October 6, 2014
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12:35 AM
The weather may be cooling, but the situation in Ferguson is still at the boiling point. Between continuing arrests, a police chief calling for backup, and a memorial literally in flames,...
October 6, 2014
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12:33 AM