Maria Baer

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  Mar 31, 2020

  This is your brain on Google

  Nine out of ten people who use the internet on their mobile devices, use Google. In other words, it’s Google’s world and we’re just living in it. Do we really want this amount of sheer power unregulated?

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  Feb 26, 2020

  From equality indexes to SOGI Laws, the LGBT movement marches on

  The HRC excitedly announced that a record 686 of America’s leading companies and law firms now rigorously protect LGBTQ people. The lobbying firm has successfully weaponized the Equality Index as a formidable force of their obsession.

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  Feb 7, 2020

  Billie Eilish and turning kids into pop stars

  It’s not exactly accurate to say Eilish was “discovered.” It’s more like she was invented. There’s “talent management,” and then there’s exploitation.

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  Jan 19, 2020

  It’s time for smartphone sanity

  Smartphones are changing us. And not for the better.

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  Jan 5, 2020

  Consent in a culture of confusion

  What, exactly, is consent? At the root of all of the confusion is the premise that sex is inherently unhooked from marriage.

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  Nov 27, 2019

  Westboro and the power of a bad idea

  It’s exhausting to talk about Westboro Baptist Church. This small cult, made up almost entirely of a single family and their spouses, has caused a tremendous amount of pain around the country.

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  Nov 12, 2019

  Hollywood's 'Harriet': A real heroine and a powerful God

  “Sometimes it stings, like a slap in the face.” That’s how Araminta Tubman – known best as Harriet – describes hearing the voice of God in the new Focus Features’ movie “Harriet.”

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  Oct 30, 2019

  Should we abolish prisons?

  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez successfully grabbed another headline recently by tweeting that Americans should have a “real conversation” about abolishing prisons.