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Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.7.2016 9:00 AM


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  • The Dallas Morning News has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, the first time the paper has endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate since before World War II.
  • Indy presidential candidate Evan McMullin has accidentally picked a running mate.
  • U.S. immigration courts are facing an unprecedented backlog of over 1 million cases.
  • Students across the country submit to Microaggressions 101.
  • A former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law is still being subjected to a Title IX witch-hunt, after the school decided that getting cleared of sexual harassment allegations one time wasn't enough.
  • "The Sex Bureaucracy," Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk's excellent paper on government meddling in college sex affairs, has now been published.
  • The U.S. should just let other countries outpace us at traditional math and science education, argues math professor David Edwards at FEE. Most adults, even those in engineering, use little more than eighth-grade level math plus Excel.
  • Take a gander at psychology tests from over the years—some of which are still being used today.
  • Senators failed to pass a bill directing funds to fight the Zika virus after Democrats and Republicans disagreed over whether any of the money should go to Planned Parenthood.
  • Phyllis Schlafly: feminist icon?
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.