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/ 3 months ago2024’s Election Day heads into the history books alongside 1964 and 1980 landslides and 2000’s Bush v. Gore nail-biter
In US history, there have been many memorable elections – including those involving quick, decisive wins and others subjected to drawn-out...
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/ 3 months agoWill the lights go out on Cuba’s communist leaders? With fewer options to prop up economy, their future looks dimmer
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to...
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/ 3 months agoKristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.
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/ 3 months agoOnly 5.3% of welders in the US are women. After years as a writing professor, I became one − here’s what I learned
Being a woman in a welding and fabrication shop means finding workarounds for getting tasks done.
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/ 3 months agoCarl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’
On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate...
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Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
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/ 3 months agoBeefing up Border Patrol is a bipartisan goal, but the agency has a troubled history of violence and impunity
Created in 1924 to enforce draconian new immigration quotas, Border Patrol recruited its first agents from the Texas Rangers militia, giving...
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/ 3 months agoHow Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and...
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The visionary arranger thought of himself as a storyteller, not just a sound engineer.
