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/ 2 years agoA brief history of debt ceiling crises and the political chaos they’ve unleashed
There are political as well as economic risks to debt standoffs in Congress.
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/ 2 years agoMeditative mothering? How Buddhism honors both compassionate caregiving and celibate monks and nuns
The lines between family life and Buddhist monasticism are not so ‘either/or’ as they might seem.
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/ 2 years agoLessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains how a sci-fi series illuminates today’s threats
‘Star Trek: Picard’ is set 400 years in the future, but, like most science fiction, it deals with issues in the...
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/ 2 years agoTupac’s ‘Dear Mama’ endures as rap artists detail complex relationships with their mothers, street life and the pursuit of success
From Tupac to Jay-Z, many a rap artist has set pen to paper to pay homage to the women who gave...
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/ 2 years agoGene therapy helps combat some forms of blindness – and ongoing clinical trials are looking to extend these treatments to other diseases
Genetics expert Jean Bennett explains how gene therapy is being used to treat certain forms of inherited blindness.
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/ 2 years agoDespite the end of Title 42, restrictions on asylum seekers are expected to continue under Biden administration
Title 42 has triggered criticisms from immigration advocates and public health experts. But the end of the controversial policy may mean...
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/ 2 years agoWhat is carbon capture and storage? Power plant CCS gets a boost with EPA’s proposed new rules, but it’s not a quick solution
Carbon capture and storage is the most promising solution for gas and coal-fired power plants to keep running under the proposed...
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/ 2 years ago4 factors that contributed to the record low history scores for US eighth graders
A historian of education policy says the dramatic drop in history test scores among the nation’s eighth graders was a predictable...
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/ 2 years ago‘Courage is contagious’: Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn’t happen in a vacuum
The Vietnam War whistleblower’s decision to leak thousands of pages of government documents was not a quick one.
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/ 2 years agoImmigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US — Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult
U.S. immigration policies have not deterred migration, but they have made the process longer and more difficult for migrants.
