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/ 5 months agoLoss of Supreme Court legitimacy can lead to political violence
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
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/ 5 months agoBlack economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society
By putting financial pressure on white businesses – often in a highly organized way – Black civil rights leaders achieved social...
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/ 5 months agoUS’s terrorist listing of European far-right group signals fears of rising threat − both abroad and at home
Listing a violent extremist group as ‘terrorist’ makes it illegal for any American to offer the organization financial support.
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/ 5 months agoKnowing when to call it quits takes courage and confidence – 3 case studies
How does someone with power and fame walk away from it? It’s not easy, as these three examples from politics and...
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/ 5 months agoSupreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’
In a major homelessness ruling, the Supreme Court holds that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when...
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/ 5 months agoHow camping bans − like the one the Supreme Court just upheld − can fit into ‘hostile design’: Strategies to push out homeless people
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
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/ 5 months agoSupreme Court makes prosecution of Trump on obstruction charge more difficult, with ruling to narrowly define law used against him and Jan. 6 rioters
Government prosecutors, ruled the Supreme Court, stretched the meaning of a law that’s been used to prosecute those alleged to have...
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/ 5 months agoICE detainees suffer preventable deaths − Q&A with a medical researcher about systemic failures
ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing detainees to...
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/ 5 months agoFederal funding for major science agencies is at a 25-year low
Research funding is down in recent years despite promises made with the CHIPS and Science Act.
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/ 5 months agoWestern interest in ayahuasca is creating challenges for local Indigenous communities and raising issues of cultural appropriation
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising many concerns.
