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Donald Trump’s “there are only two sexes” executive order lays the foundation for a broad conservative assault on Gays, Feminists and all Americans who reject traditional views of sex and morality. Modern Neuroscience explains why the order is wrong.

Donald Trump’s “there are only two sexes” executive order lays the foundation for a broad conservative assault on Gays, Feminists and all Americans who reject traditional views of sex and morality. Modern Neuroscience explains why the order is wrong.

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Democrats should stop calling themselves a “coalition.” They don’t think like a coalition, they don’t act like a coalition and they sure as hell don’t try to assemble a majority like a coalition.

Calling the Democratic Party a “coalition” is a venerable cliché of Democratic political life. But in recent years, it has basically become an empty one. The party’s working-class support has so markedly declined that Democrats largely have stopped describing the party as a “big tent coalition.” However, the notion that the party is nonetheless a coalition remains common.

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The widely discussed new book White Rural Rage employs a deeply misleading sensationalism to gain media attention. You should read The Rural Voter by Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea instead.

Democratic strategists: The widely discussed new book White Rural Rage employs a deeply misleading sensationalism to gain media attention. You should read The Rural Voter by Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea instead. It is a far more thoughtful and profoundly researched analysis of rural Americans.

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