Last week, three days after my father passed away, I was notified of phone calls in my district speaking in support of
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I knew from the moment I heard this that somehow the story of my very mild encounter with Devin Nunes on the flight from Salt Lake City to DC had made its way to Trump.
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I walked out into the Stars and Stripes newsroom in the National Press Building on Sept. 11, 2001, and asked what was cooking. “Slow news day,” said a junior staffer. “And I’m
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In the weeks following 9/11, I decided to journal some of what happened on that day. I recently came across my notes, and rereading them all these years later still brings chills.
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I’m seeing too many posts of the actual attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Especially if you were in New York City that day and lost loved ones, it’s really triggering to see
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On Sept. 10, 2001, the phone rang early in my California home. My youngest brother, who lived in Indiana, sometimes ignored the time difference. After I grabbed the phone and said hello
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It started as most days back then, my husband up early and on the road to his office while I scrambled to get our (then) 13 year old on the school bus,
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There are two types of sweat glands in our bodies: eccrine and apocrine. The apocrine is found in select areas, notably our armpits, but I wanna talk about our eccrine glands. Those
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It has been 20 years since 9/11, and I cannot help but let my mind think back to that day. I was nowhere near the Twin Towers when they were hit, had
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Many things divide Americans politically, but there is now a demographic that previously had little impact: religious vs. non-religious. Gallup began measuring religious membership in 1937. In that poll, membership in a religious
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From one end of this Arizona county to the other, Maricopa school board districts are the latest target for right-wing, Trump and QAnon followers. They bring in outside agitators, create chaos in
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When actress Sally Field won the 1985 Academy Award, she said, in essence: You like me. You really like me. I think if you were to ask Americans if they want universal health
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