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The loss of a single language, legendary linguist Kenneth Hale used to say, “is like dropping a bomb on the Louvre.” Saving the...
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Quantum physics probably isn’t your normal topic of conversation. But we should have at least a working understanding of some of the...
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Louisiana’s flagship public university, LSU, has a checkered past on integration. A black student president helps students of color...
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Boys in crisis? The claim has cropped up in several places around the world. It often points to shifting social realities – and...
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Young women are supporting each other and challenging attitudes that contribute to trafficking. Helping others discover their agency,...
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The Flint water crisis may have faded from national headlines, but for locals the story is lifelong. The city’s holistic...
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Sanford and Portland, Maine At the peak of the recycling crisis here, Kayla LeBrun almost pressed the panic button that summons...
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The internet is no longer an amenity, it’s essential to thrive in the 21st-century economy. But too many Americans still don’t have...
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Silicon Valley has long been disproportionately male. Our writer looks into some encouraging new activity around one important...
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In a nation where a majority relies on subsistence farming, improved crop strains can make a big difference. But getting fortified...
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By Molly Jackson – Brigham Young University is hardly a place you’d expect Muslim students from halfway around the world to...
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By Fred Weir – Moscow It’s the kind of tragedy Americans are all too familiar with; Russians, far less so. But the...
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By Dean Paton – A litany of pent-up grievances is propelling a wave of office-seeking educators. And it starts and ends with...
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Why We Wrote This Democracies aim to turn political passions into protests and activism. Living through such a time, however, draws...
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