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/ 1 year agoAre journalists serving Virginia’s voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level
With the balance of political power at stake in the Virginia legislature, voters in this key swing state may reveal clues...
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/ 1 year agoYoung, female voters were the key to defeating populists in Poland’s election – providing a blueprint to reverse democracy’s decline
The autocratic Law and Justice Party looks set to be turfed out by a center-left coalition, which gained more than half...
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/ 1 year agoWorkplace discrimination saps everyone’s motivation − even when it works in your favor
Having a biased manager lowers productivity across the board – even for workers who aren’t targeted.
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/ 1 year agoFrom India and Taiwan to Tibet, the living assist the dead in their passage
Across cultures, death rituals give mourners a chance to grieve. But they also offer one last opportunity to help the deceased...
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/ 1 year agoHow Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween’s theme song
The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
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/ 1 year agoCollaborative water management can be a building block for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
As the war between Hamas and Israel grinds forward, two experts explain how Israelis and Palestinians have cooperated to tackle their...
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/ 1 year agoJewish response to Hamas war criticism comes from deep sense of trauma, active grief and fear
Many people who aren’t Jewish are responding as if what’s been taking place is just another episode of Israeli-Palestinian violence. But...
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/ 1 year agoIn the Israel-Hamas war, children are the ultimate pawns – and ultimate victims
For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children...
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/ 1 year agoDay of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a ‘Mexican Halloween’
Halloween’s influence is transforming popular festivities around Día de los Muertos and its ceremonial customs in rural and urban areas of...
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/ 1 year agoPalestinian Christians and Muslims have lived together in the region for centuries − and several were killed recently while sheltering in the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius
Many Christian and Muslim families in Gaza today were displaced following the creation of new Arab and Jewish states. Today, Palestinian...
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/ 1 year agoThis course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings
Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
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/ 1 year agoUnited Auto Workers union hails its tentative strike-ending deals with Ford and Stellantis that would raise top assembly-plant hourly pay to more than $40 as ‘record contracts’
Rank-and-file union members employed by the automakers have to ratify the new contracts before they can become final.
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/ 1 year agoViolent and disturbing war images from the Mideast can stir deep emotions − a PTSD expert explains how to protect yourself and your kids from overexposure
People, including children and adolescents, are being exposed to horrifying imagery in the news and on social media. But there are...
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/ 1 year agoHow to deal with visual misinformation circulating in the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts
A human rights scholar explains how social media users can take charge of what content comes into their feed and reduce...
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/ 1 year agoWhite patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments
Undertreated pain can result in unnecessary suffering and a greater likelihood of long-term chronic pain.
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/ 1 year agoLouisiana’s ‘In God We Trust’ law tests limits of religion in public schools
Does Louisiana’s requirement for public schools to post ‘In God We Trust’ in all classrooms violate the doctrine of separation of...
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/ 1 year agoWhy Elon Musk is obsessed with casting X as the most ‘authentic’ social media platform
With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
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/ 1 year agoAsteroids in the solar system could contain undiscovered, superheavy elements
Scientists have been searching Earth’s surface for superheavy elements too difficult to make in the lab, but now, many are looking...
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/ 1 year agoA Halloween party in Boston turned ugly when a gang hurled antisemitic slurs and attacked Jewish teenagers
Shortly after World War II, European Jews immigrated to American cities like Boston and were often met with violent antisemitism.
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/ 1 year agoAIs could soon run businesses – it’s an opportunity to ensure these ‘artificial persons’ follow the law
If a business is run by an AI and it causes you harm, could you sue the AI?
