What are ‘Horizontal Hostilities?’
Most of us identify Lucy Stone with women's suffrage. The first woman in Massachusetts to earn a bachelor's degree , she became a public lecturer and crusader for equal rights for women.
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She dated Obama before Michelle
But before the iconic couple met in 1989, when they were both working at a Chicago law firm, Obama spent many years dating a different woman - Sheila Miyoshi Jager. Details about this relationship have been revealed in a new biography on Obama, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama , by David J. Garrow, who interviewed Jager about the former President.
Diversify college campuses to prevent echo chambers
After Donald Trump's election, some universities echoed with primal howls. Faculty members canceled classes for weeping, terrified students who asked: How could this possibly be happening? I share apprehensions about President-elect Trump, but I also fear the reaction was evidence of how insular universities have become.