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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends language.oral Article 605 words 10 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) ~humanities.history Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India religion Article 2356 words 4 votes
The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’ ~humanities.history Article 3066 words, published Jan 25 2020 5 votes
Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance ~humanities.history Article 475 words 13 votes
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times ~humanities.history Article 137 words, published Aug 14 2019 4 votes
How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein education Article 2669 words 12 votes
One American import we could do without: hard-right religious conservatism religion Article 802 words 14 votes
Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni religion Article 1402 words 7 votes
Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games ~humanities.history Article 1044 words 8 votes
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story ~humanities.history Article 8377 words, published Jun 1 1981 8 votes
Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US? language linguistics Article 1368 words, published May 9 2016 18 votes
Emoji don't mean what they used to - The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration language linguistics Article 1616 words 23 votes
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way? ~humanities.languages Article 921 words, published Oct 26 2018 9 votes
One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche. ~humanities.history Article 3827 words 6 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes
American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund ~humanities.history Article 168 words, published Jun 5 2017 10 votes
HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved ~humanities.history Article 497 words 8 votes
Australia's Catholic priests are pushing for optional celibacy, married priests, with a plan to take the issues to the Vatican theology religion Article 545 words 11 votes
The humanities are in crisis - Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects. But they’re wrong. education.higher Article 3072 words 15 votes
We use sports terms all the time. But where do they come from? ~humanities.languages Article 1883 words 7 votes
Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. ~humanities.languages Article 2193 words 9 votes
A sociologist examines the “white fragility” that prevents white Americans from confronting racism Article 1536 words 23 votes