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US Is Losing In Ukraine. Blame China, Says Blinken
At the close of his recent trip to China, on April 26 while still in Beijing, Sec. of State, Anthony Blinken, made an ...
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Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of ...
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A Modest Proposal: The UN General Assembly and Palestinian Recognition
Despite being described in some circles as such, the latest vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine’s status ...
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Understanding Zoonotic Diseases: How Humans Get Sick from Nonhuman Animals
Human and animal health are closely linked, with many diseases shared between them. As our world becomes more developed and ...
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What are Greek Students Waiting For?
As the student movement in solidarity with the Palestinians and denunciation of their genocide by Israel intensifies in the ...
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Ultraprocessed Deadly Corporate Food Demands Action
About forty-five years ago, at a social gathering, I asked an executive of a Minneapolis-based large food processing company ...
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Banning TikTok: National Security, Civil Rights & Investments
Congress passed, and President Biden signed, a law banning TikTok in the United States if its parent company, ByteDance, did ...
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A Jeffersonian Conversation on Antisemitism
The elected imbeciles strolling the halls of government. The platitudes with which they perfume their genocidal hypocrisy ...
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Oh, How Violent: Hollywood, USC, and the Sickness of Denial
The encampments have gone. Tall metal riot fences ring USC. Underpaid security hovers nervously at metal detectors. They paw ...
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With a Modest Financial Transactions Tax, Jim Simons Would not Have Been Superrich
The New York Times reported that Jim Simons, the founder of Medallion hedge fund, died this week. As a result of his fund, according to the article, he ...
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I Run a Food Pantry, But It’s Not Enough. We Need SNAP
I run a food pantry. I’m proud of the work we do. But if lawmakers passed a liveable minimum wage or invested more in programs ...
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Mutual Backtracking in US-China Student Exchanges
In recent talks between US and Chinese leaders, they have found common ground in support for more people-to-people exchanges, particularly in education.