Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence
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Revisiting Star Trek’s most political episode: In 1995, the Deep Space Nine installment “Past Tense” stood out for its realistic, near-future vision of racism and economic injustice
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How fitness will change forever
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1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
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What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship
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US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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The Karen in Chief
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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The corruption of the Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start
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How the pandemic has silenced the USA's biggest gubernatorial election
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The system failed the test of Trump: The story of the recent years is of institutions that were unable to constrain the presidency
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same
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What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars)
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State and federal data on COVID-19 testing don’t match up
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The lessons of the Great Depression
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The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
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The board game that turns feminism into a joke: I played Ms. Monopoly so that you don’t have to
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I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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As COVID-19 gets worse, Trump is talking about things that the average American couldn't care less about
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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#DemocracyRIP: What the Russian government did to the 2016 elections in the US was just the beginning
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
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COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means?
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The problem with stories about dangerous coronavirus mutations. There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months
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"ICU delirium" is leaving COVID-19 patients scared and confused
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The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
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Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War
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How Georgia is reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Why Mitch Mcconnell wants US states to go bankrupt
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Many schools are already closed until the end of the year. So what happens to all those missed classes?
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George Wallace's base has found a home in the Republican party
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In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong
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The purpose of Trump's COVID press briefings are to turn politics into a reality show
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Calling me a hero only makes you feel better
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The second phase of unemployment will be harsher: For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger
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A documentary called 'Mrs America' shows how Phyllis Schlafly partidarized the ERA, birthed the culture war and pioneered modern Conservative rhetoric
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A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
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Millennials are now the new lost generation
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What Joe Biden learned when managing the great recession's recovery act
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Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic
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The most important states in the 2020 US election already have vote-by-mail
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How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India
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Will the American economy/coronavirus affect Trump's chances in November?
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Modern Venezuela shows the eerie conclusion of illiberal politics
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Books briefing: If your attention span is shrinking, read poetry
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The coronavirus pandemic is reminding us to look inwards and self reflect
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Testing backlogs at US private laboratories have ballooned
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