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/ 7 months agoDecades on, Delbert Africa’s surrender still provides powerful image of US racism and Black victimhood
A white Philadelphia police officer was killed during a 1978 confrontation with the radical group MOVE. Often overlooked was the brutality...
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/ 7 months agoMembers of Congress undermine the country – and their own legitimacy – with antidemocratic rhetoric
2 scholars analyzed more than 1 million official Tweets from members of Congress − and found a lot of antidemocratic language...
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/ 7 months agoFrom a pig as political candidate to a breakout speech for Obama − Democratic National Convention often leaves its mark on history
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will officially accept their nominations at the Democratic National Convention. A scholar of the presidency shares...
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/ 7 months agoGood flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area
A soil expert explains why flooding rice fields in South Florida benefits the agriculture-rich region.
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/ 7 months agoIslamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage
A scholar of Iraq describes the ongoing loss following the genocidal violence by IS − not just of human lives, but...
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/ 7 months agoHow charities with thrift shops can get better stuff from their donors instead of junk
Giving cruddy clothing, furniture and other useless stuff to a charity does it no favors, since it costs money to get...
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/ 7 months agoHow to get your kids ready to go back to school without stress − 5 tips from an experienced school counselor
Taking the stress and uncertainty out of going back to school can ease the process, a veteran counselor explains.
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/ 7 months agoQatari mediation was already producing diminishing returns – assassination of Hamas negotiator further erodes Gulf state’s role
Successor to slain Palestinian negotiator is a hardliner who resides in Gaza’s tunnels and has no realistic chance of being in...
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/ 7 months agoImane Khelif controversy at Paris Olympics shows how sex testing in women’s sports puts regulators in an impossible bind
Most sports are organized according to a strict male-female binary. Nature isn’t.
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/ 7 months agoRemembering the longest journey to Auschwitz – the deportation of Rhodes’ Jews decimated a small but vibrant community with centuries of Mediterranean history
Even as Germany’s defeat loomed, the Nazis deported nearly 1,700 Jews of the Ladino-speaking community of Rhodes to concentration camps.
