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China and Singapore’s justice systems aren’t models for America: Let’s talk about drug addiction and treatment, regardless of Trump’s comments
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China and Singapore’s justice systems aren’t models for America: Let’s talk about drug addiction and treatment, regardless of Trump’s comments

While stumping for Republican House candidate Rick Saccone at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, President Donald Trump digressed to praise Singapore and China for their harsh stance on drug trafficking, often ending in a death sentence. Singapore, of course, also became infamous in 1992 for banning chewing gum — punished by fines and sometimes caning....

Student tests potential treatments for neurological disorder
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Student tests potential treatments for neurological disorder

  Senior Delaney Lehman spent a summer finding a compound that could be synthesized to cure Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a mutation that causes severe handicaps, in her internship with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. To clarify: This research had nothing to do with sharks, French monarchs, or dental problems. The incurable disease, which affects...

The Liberty Walk needs Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The Liberty Walk needs Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 bewitched the German Evangelical Church. They covered their altars with swastika flags and sang Nazi songs in their services. Their new doctrine, in the words of Pastor Julius Leutheuser, was “Christ has come to us through Adolf Hitler.” There were a few who resisted the development. Of the...

Bingley: a legacy leaves his mark
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Bingley: a legacy leaves his mark

“First of all, I’m a legacy.” Dr. Leo Bingley Jr. ’58 was the third generation of men in his family to attend Hillsdale College, and his two sons followed in his footsteps. His great-great grandfather was a Civil War veteran who attended the college and later became the mayor of Hillsdale. Bingley is a legacy...