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/ 1 year agoUS Army Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’ journey from enslaver to Union officer to civil rights defender
A Southerner, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas was a racist enslaver before the Civil War. But he fought for the Union...
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Latino artists have been forging their own paths in hip-hop for decades, giving voice to young peoples’ pain, faith and demands...
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/ 1 year agoWhat is Theravada Buddhism?
Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religious system in several parts of South and Southeast Asia, but there is a rich diversity...
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/ 1 year agoSummer reading: 5 books that explore LGBTQ teen and young adult life
A scholar of young adult fiction presents a fresh list of LGBTQ ‘must-reads’ for the summer of 2023.
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/ 1 year agoMost super rich couples have breadwinning husbands and stay-at-home wives, contrasting sharply with everyone else
While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole...
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/ 1 year agoAmid fears of Chinese influence, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has grown more powerful
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2022 tightening the rules for foreign investment in the US.
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/ 1 year agoHow the sounds of ‘Succession’ shred the grandeur and respect the characters so desperately try to project
Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for...
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/ 1 year agoCytomegalovirus lies dormant in most US adults and is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, but few have heard of it
Although testing for CMV during pregnancy isn’t routine and there isn’t universal screening for infants, there are steps pregnant people can...
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/ 1 year agoAtlantic hurricane season 2023: El Niño and extreme Atlantic Ocean heat are about to clash
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
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/ 1 year agoCOVID-19 clawbacks, spending caps and a cut – what House Republicans got in return for pushing the US to the brink of default
The White House and House Republicans agreed to a deal just days before the US is expected to default.
