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COLUMN: Want to stop abortions? Teach sex ed

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

During the Planned Parenthood trials, Republican Representative Jason Chaffertz pointed to an incorrectly labeled graph and stated that the number of abortions performed by planned parenthood had increased between 2006 and 2013.

COLUMN: The faces on our money

By Zack Chambers · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

Does Andrew Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill? He was a slave owner and killed countless Native Americans in his quest for Manifest Destiny. That being said, the man was so instrumental in forging our modern conception of democracy that his name is now an adjective for it: Jacksonian democracy. Perhaps the more appropriate question is whether or not he should be stripped of this placement today. The removal of past honors is a complex subject. When statues of dictators are felled in foreign countries, nearly all Americans celebrate alongside the newly liberated. However, when the glorification of controversial figures in America is brought up for review, the issue is much less two dimensional.