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		<title>Polls and Partisanship</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/11/polls-and-partisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent poll found that 37% of evangelicals are more likely to vote for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore&#160;following&#160;allegations of sexual misconduct against him. That makes for a nice clickbait headline. It sounds appalling, and it is&#160;appalling, though perhaps not for the reasons one might think. First, some details on the poll itself: it was [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/11/polls-and-partisanship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crime and Hate</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/crime-and-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ally Lee Steinfeld had been missing since early September. Her body was found recently, mutilated and burned. She was 17. Her death made Steinfeld at least the 21st transgender person killed in the United States this year. A record high of 22 murders were captured by the Human Rights Campaign last year. We have to [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/crime-and-hate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Uses of Anger</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/the-uses-of-anger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger,&#8221; says Audre Lorde in The Uses of Anger, her 1981 keynote talk at the National Women&#8217;s Studies Association Conference. I have been thinking a lot about this piece recently. It feels sharply relevant today, 36 years after it was written. Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/the-uses-of-anger/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor and Civics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 13:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, we celebrated Labor Day in the United States &#8211; a day which only became a national holiday in the wake of the Pullman Strike; a dark ordeal in which 30 American workers were killed by U.S. Federal Troops. Of course, most of the world celebrates the contributions of labor&#160;on May 1 &#8211; [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/labor-and-civics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor and Civics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 13:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, we celebrated Labor Day in the United States &#8211; a day which only became a national holiday in the wake of the Pullman Strike; a dark ordeal in which 30 American workers were killed by U.S. Federal Troops. Of course, most of the world celebrates the contributions of labor&#160;on May 1 &#8211; [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/labor-and-civics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of DACA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On June 15, 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal,&#8221; reads the website for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Consideration of deferred action for [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/in-defense-of-daca/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Politics and Blame</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/on-politics-and-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the few things that can be widely agreed upon these days is that the state of U.S. politics is less than ideal. Whether your side is winning or losing, it seems, the fight sure is ugly. Of course, hindsight bias makes it challenging to accurately quantify the depravity of current affairs relative [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/on-politics-and-blame/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom of Speech</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/freedom-of-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was offline for most of the weekend, there was a bit of excitement generated by a 10-page, misogynist manifesto published internally by a male employee at a certain well-known tech company. The employee has since been fired. I&#8217;ll admit that I haven&#8217;t read&#160;the entire controversial post. Quite frankly, I&#8217;m not sure I need [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/08/freedom-of-speech/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone is Talented</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/everyone-is-talented/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#225;szl&#243;&#160;Moholy-Nagy, a Hungarian artist who joined the Bauhaus as a professor in 1923, was known for his philosophy that &#8220;everyone is talented.&#8221; By this, he meant that, &#8220;every human being is open to sense impressions, tone, color, touch,spatial experience, etc. The structure of a life is predetermined in these sensibilities. But only art &#8211; creation [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/everyone-is-talented/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Language and Communication</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/language-and-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly what does it take for something to be communicated? This question gained specific prominence during the second world war when cryptographers, such as Claude Shannon, sought to maximally compress information for transmission. To successfully transmit a message, for example, you don&#8217;t have to transmit every letter of it. English &#8211; as well as other [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/language-and-communication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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