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African-Americans
Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

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By Aram Goudsouzian | – In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Their guest, he said, was his “soul brother.” “He has carved for himself an imperishable niche in the annals of our nation’s history,” King told the […]

Donald Trump
Capitol assault: the real reason Trump and the crowd almost killed US democracy

Capitol assault: the real reason Trump and the crowd almost killed US democracy

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By Stephen Reicher, Alex Haslam, Evangelos Ntontis, and Klara Jurstakova | – It was the moment that could have brought US democracy to its knees. One year ago, around noon on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump gave the concluding speech to a “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington DC. Within an hour, protesters attacked and […]

Authoritarianism
How democracy gets eroded – lessons from a Nixon expert

How democracy gets eroded – lessons from a Nixon expert

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By Ken Hughes | – Now that a full year has passed since the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, the 2020 election and the republic, it’s evident that the attack never really ended. Instead, it spread out to other, less visible, more vulnerable targets. Donald Trump had hoped to reverse his election loss […]

Climate Crisis
‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science

‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science

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By Gale Sinatra and Barbara K. Hofer | – Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception – in fact, people ignoring or flat out denying scientific evidence is the point. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers who make a literally Earth-shattering discovery and then […]

Donald Trump
The ‘Sore Loser Effect’: Rejecting election Results can destabilize Democracy and drive Terrorism<

The ‘Sore Loser Effect’: Rejecting election Results can destabilize Democracy and drive Terrorism<

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By James Piazza | – An attendee at an October 2021 political rally hosted by right-wing activist Charlie Kirk asked: “How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” The attendee was referring to the baseless allegation that Joe Biden stole the 2020 U.S. presidential election and that he unfairly denied […]

Donald Trump
American support for conspiracy theories and armed rebellion isn’t new – we just didn’t believe it before the Capitol insurrection

American support for conspiracy theories and armed rebellion isn’t new – we just didn’t believe it before the Capitol insurrection

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Amanda J. Crawford | – Americans had to confront a new reality when an angry mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: Some of their fellow citizens were in the grips of a false reality and had resorted to violence to support it. Conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and the strange […]

Christianity
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: father of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: father of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’

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By P. Pratap Kumar | – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died at the age of 90. Archbishop Tutu earned the respect and love of millions of South Africans and the world. He carved out a permanent place in their hearts and minds, becoming known affectionately as “The Arch”. When South Africans woke up […]

Authoritarianism
The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail

The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail

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By Jordi Vidal-Robert, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Mauricio Drelichman | – From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya in Myanmar, religious persecution has been a tool of state control for millennia. While its immediate violence and human consequences are obvious, less obvious is whether it leaves scars centuries […]

Climate Crisis
Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields

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By David Waltham | – As a professor of geophysics, I have spent 36 years training young geologists destined to work in the fossil fuel industry how to look for oil and gas. But now I believe it’s time to stop fossil-fuel exploration and halt the development of all new oil and gas fields. We […]

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