Dwell

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There is a protest happening on the street where I live, in Brooklyn, as I write this. Just as there have been protests daily for weeks here and in cities around the country and around the world. We’ve seen this before. Somewhere in the United States

India Today

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The Centre needs to urgently facilitate access to food and cash by universalising PDS at the local level and see to it that people have access to ration irrespective of documentation; it needs to ensure workers are paid their rightful wages. Immediat

The Atlantic

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In the summer of 1917, Walter Lippmann strutted into Washington as it prepared for war. Both he and his young country were ready to prove their worth as superpowers. He was 27 and newly married, recruited to whisper into the ear of Newton Baker, the

The Atlantic

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What new responsibilities should a rich and liberal democracy take on in the 21st century? If you ask almost any American progressive, they will talk about the need to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and lessen the blow of climate change. Lately, a

Marie Claire Australia

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As part of her work exploring femininity and empowerment, photographer Alice Mann was drawn to schools in Cape Town, South Africa, to capture the unique world of drum majorettes. Affectionately known as “Drummies”, the girls, ranging from five to 18

The Atlantic

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History is punctuated by catalytic episodes—events that can become guideposts toward a more open and civilized world.

The Christian Science Monitor

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We Stories, a nonprofit founded in 2015 to raise ‘big-hearted kids,’ has hundreds of families on its waiting list.

Reason

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Published in fall 2019, Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day is set in a near-future where public gatherings have been radically limited by a global pandemic and threats of violence. Reading the book in 2020—which I did shortly after learning it had

Woman & Home South Africa

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The changing economic landscape has seen many women in South Africa become the primary breadwinners of their households. A 1Life survey of over 7 000 women aged 25 to 44 conducted in August 2019 found that 69% of respondents declared themselves to be

Los Angeles Times

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The Times' analysis of the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of Emmy nominees in 19 major categories from 2015 to 2019 revealed that television's most prestigious award has not been representative of the viewing public. Instead, it's been overwhelmi

OUT

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Loving your body is optional. You can be in any sort of relationship with your body, and it’s important to acknowledge that, rather than constantly feeling forced to love it or guilty if you don’t. When it comes to the body positivity movement, why d

The Atlantic

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A man named François is a professor in Paris. He is a scholar of Joris-Karl Huysmans, an obscure 19th-century author who, in his later years, converted to Catholicism in an epiphany. François is the hero, or rather anti-hero, of French novelist Miche

The Atlantic

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Surrounded by cultural pressures to dislike the “other,” one undergraduate marshals empathy and charity.

New Philosopher

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Americans with incomes of $70,000 per annum shoplift 30% more than those earning up to $20,000 per annum. In 2018, Forbes identified Xi Jinping, the current leader of China, as the world’s most powerful living person. In America, 71% of parents

Money Magazine

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Among the many measures to tackle Covid-19 is the allowance of early access to super: up to $10,000 before July 1, another $10,000 before September 30. Let’s consider what it means for women. Hospitality, food and beverage and events industries have

Literary Hub

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In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Richard Reeves, author of Dream Hoarders, co-director of the Center on Children and Families, and editor-in-chief of the Social Mobility Memos blog, about the rights of minorities, how we personalize public

India Today

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311 UIGHUR MUSLIMS were detained in China in 2017 and 2018, with their families and friends subjected to constant surveillance, reveals a leaked report. Their ‘crimes’ included growing long beards. Authorities monitored social media accounts and used

Sunday Tribune

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HUNDREDS of Lebanon’s most vulnerable migrant maids have been repatriated with funds raised by local charities, but thousands more remain stuck and destitute due to a deep economic crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to campaigners. Their top

Yachts & Yachting magazine

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The RYA’s Diversity and Inclusion Guidance Notes, available on its website, offer practical advice for sailing clubs, saying: “If your local community has a high proportion of residents who are members of certain faith or ethnic groups, but this is n

India Today

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Q Despite the acrimonious election campaign, you have started your chief ministerial stint by dropping your FIR against former CM Raghubar Das. Are you both friends again? The opposition plays a big role in giving direction to the state. I believe in

Huck

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Young people across the world are refusing to be ignored and downtrodden: a generation determined to build something better, something bolder, something new. From the school pupils walking out across the US to advocate for gun control and to end horr

India Today

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It is a little alarming to find myself in substantial agreement with JR in his view of "Indian culture" as a multi-layered palimpsest - not least because JR is a self-confessed "conservative" and I fancied myself a leftist once. (Leftists are an enda

India Today

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An unfortunate trope among the global liberal elite is the demonisation of patriotism. Often, extremist nationalist groups of the 20th century, such as the Nazis, or the Italian Fascists, are used as examples to try and make us wary of patriotism and

Total Film

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SHOW EXTRAS TBC 2020 OUT NOW DVD Adapted from Malorie Blackman’s popular YA novels, this BBC show presents the result of an alternate timeline in which Europe was colonised by Africa leading to an upended world vision from what we see in today’s real

Global Voices

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Ms. Knežević was stopped and searched in public while onlookers heckled her. In her backpack, security only found sheet music, books, and a wallet.

Global Voices

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Political delegates of the New Democracy party were arrested, accused of carrying fake credentials.

Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - The first time he watched the horrifying video of George Floyd's death on a Minneapolis street corner, Nedum Onuoha saw more than just a police officer kneeling on the neck of an unarmed black man. He saw more than the asphyxiation of s

NPR

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At the same time, HHS Secretary Alex Azar criticized the deadlines as "artificial" and said that they prevent the government "from completing our standard or even a truncated vetting process."

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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“ I will never forget March 15, 2019. Nor will I forget the 51 people whose lives were taken, those who were injured that day or those who witnessed the attacks or the immediate aftermath. I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when th