This certainly doesn’t excuse prejudice or irrationality found ... comprehensive understanding. Do you want poetry to be written by robots? Apparently, some people do. But as executive director ...

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Broncos head coach Sean Payton is now facing some scrutiny for his postgame excuse about why his team failed to seal the deal on what would be the first playoff berth since 2015. The Broncos took ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...

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Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...