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Juneteenth offers new ways to teach about slavery, Black perseverance and American history

Whenever I tell high school students in classes I visit that I appreciated learning about slavery as a child growing up in the Caribbean,...

Cormac McCarthy’s fearless approach to writing

Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13, 2023, at the age of 89, is often characterized rather narrowly as a Southern writer, or perhaps...

Abortion restrictions put hospital ethics committees in the spotlight – but what do they do?

Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right...

Southern Baptist Convention votes to expel two churches with female pastors – a religion scholar explains how far back these battles go

During its two-day annual meeting that began on June 13, 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the ouster of its largest congregation that ordained...

The US will send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine – a health physicist explains their military, health and environmental effects

The Biden administration has agreed to provide Ukraine with depleted uranium shells to equip M1A1 Abrams tanks that the U.S. is sending there. Britain...

The Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment

What does the Ukraine war have to do with Brazil? On the face of it, perhaps not much. Yet, in his first six months...

George Soros hands control over his family’s philanthropy to son Alex, after giving away billions and enduring years of antisemitic attacks and conspiracy theories

Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros is handing control of his US$25 billion holdings, including his Open Society Foundations, to one of his sons,...

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase...

The news was startling. On June 19, 1865, two months after the U.S. Civil War ended, Union Gen. Gordon Granger walked onto the balcony...

EU files antitrust charges against Google – here’s how the ad tech at the heart of the case works

The European Union filed an antitrust case against Google on June 14, 2023, charging that the company abused its power in the online advertising...

When homes flood, who retreats and to where? We mapped thousands of buyouts and found the average move is only 7 miles, and race...

After Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in 2021, Kirt Talamo, a fourth-generation Louisianan, decided it was time to go. He sold his flooded home,...

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