Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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The elite college students who can’t read books
57 votes -
As the Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner
52 votes -
That collective feeling - The rise and fall of New York clubbing
7 votes -
Britain’s embrace of the bomb
5 votes -
Why tackling accent bias matters at work
35 votes -
When the CIA messes up
9 votes -
Do you speak Estonian?
10 votes -
The not-so-straight story of the US-Canadian border
7 votes -
MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
14 votes -
Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
14 votes -
Jacob’s Dream - MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
39 votes -
The endangered languages of New York
16 votes -
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
22 votes -
Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
12 votes -
More Americans are nonreligious. Who are they and what do they believe?
39 votes -
The misguided war on the SAT
30 votes -
Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy – The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms
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Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless [to eliminate bad habits]. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.
46 votes -
When the New York Times lost its way
23 votes -
The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood
39 votes -
How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
41 votes -
A man plagiarized my work: Women, money, and the nation
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The New Jersey Hindu temple covered with 10,000 sculptures, marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built
12 votes -
The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
84 votes -
Why the “privacy” wars rage on
12 votes -
In Kenya, a group of conservation scientists confront the cultural tradition of an indigenous tribe
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How native English speakers can stop confusing everyone else
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Why people believe their own lies - The George Santos syndrome
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
24 votes -
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
12 votes -
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
7 votes -
How Emily Wilson made Homer modern
14 votes -
Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
14 votes -
The villa where doctors experimented on children
8 votes -
As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
10 votes -
Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
13 votes -
Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
33 votes -
The earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
9 votes -
A miracle in Missouri? The nun who put her abbey on the map
7 votes -
An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
30 votes -
War against the children
13 votes -
Searching for Maura
9 votes -
How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor
34 votes -
Iran is about to make its hijab laws even stricter
13 votes -
Newly published transcripts show the work of early radio broadcaster Walter Benjamin and the details he observed about his time
7 votes -
Teaching myself calculus at sixty-five
24 votes -
What were those mysterious craft? (1979)
7 votes