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Author: Erik Loomis

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Chamorro

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On June 14, 2025
Violeta Chamorro is dead. Violeta Barrios Torres was born in 1929 to a wealthy, conservative family with significant land holdings near the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border, on the Atlantic side of the nation. Cattle ranching was their game and of course dominating the lives of the...

Fulbright

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On June 13, 2025

With my wife just finished with her Fulbright, I am glad that she got through this without a problem, but the decline of this wonderful program is just one more.

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Playing Your Role in History

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On June 13, 2025
I wanted to commend Alex Padilla for putting it on the line yesterday against Kristi Noem, just as I'd like to commend the politicians in New Jersey standing up to ICE. Similarly, if something happens at the No Kings protests tomorrow, well, it happens. Fear...
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That David Huerta, who heads SEIU in California, was arrested during the immigration protests in Los Angeles has galvanized a lot of attention on the relationship between unions and immigration. There's a number of stories about this. Here's one in the Times. Here's the one...

Placebos

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On June 11, 2025

I have absolutely no context or knowledge about this issue, but this essay on the power of placebos was totally fascinating to me. Modern medicine is good at breaking things.

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