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/ 11 months agoA brief history of Dearborn, Michigan – the first Arab-American majority city in the US
The city often becomes a magnet for anti-Arab sentiment during election years and global conflicts; however, the more interesting story is...
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/ 11 months agoCan anyone make a citizen’s arrest? The history and legalities of catching criminals yourself
Stopping someone against their will can be false imprisonment or even kidnapping. There are laws that determine who is acting as...
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/ 11 months agoAre you seeing news reports of voting problems? 4 essential reads on election disinformation
Scholars discuss aspects of protecting election integrity in the face of efforts to cast aspersions on voting results.
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/ 11 months agoLorne Michaels, the man behind the curtain at ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has been minting comedy gold for nearly 50 years
The show has served as the nation’s laugh track for decades. Who will take over when he retires?
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/ 11 months agoPakistan’s post-election crisis – how anti-army vote may deliver an unstable government that falls into the military’s hands
The PTI, the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, won the most seats of any one party – but...
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/ 11 months agoAtlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows
Scientists now have a better understanding of the risks ahead and a new early warning signal to watch for.
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/ 11 months agoDOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies
Predictive policing has been a bust. The Department of Justice nurtured the technology from researchers’ minds to corporate production lines and...
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/ 11 months agoAbout a third of employees have faced bullying at work – here’s how to recognize and deal with it
You’d call the police if a stranger in public did what many bullies at work get away with. 2 researchers who...
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/ 11 months agoGeorge Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot
The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of...
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/ 11 months agoCould flag football one day leapfrog tackle football in popularity?
The NFL’s embrace of the sport points to a promising future. But gender and political divides could stand in the way.
