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  • Kintsugi
  • March 31, 2021

Why the Southern Bastions of Virginia and Georgia Are Taking Opposite Courses on Voting Rights

By Steven Rosenfeld As a mass shooting, possible tornadoes, and school closures drew Georgians’ attention on St. Patrick’s Day, Republicans in its GOP-majority legislature in Atl

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 30, 2020November 5, 2025

Women’s History / American History

Read more about women’s history here. Do You Know Claudete Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald and Mary Louise Smith? Read more about these true pioneers here. Colvin’s

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NY Times

  • Here’s What the New Virginia House Map Looks Like
  • Here’s Where the National Fight Over Gerrymandered Maps Stands
  • With $116 Million Gift, National Gallery Will Send Its Art Around Nation
  • Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law
  • Serial Rapist Pleads Guilty to 2 Murders After Chewed Gum Links DNA to Crimes

NPR

  • Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully
  • A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
  • How a Japanese poet's diary helps scientists reconstruct solar cycles

The Progressive

  • No Place Like Home
  • Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident
  • Community Solar Puts People in Charge
  • On Chicago’s Trains, Homeless Outreach Workers Meet People Where They Are
  • Citizen Journalists Shine a Light on Gaza

FactCheck.org

  • We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award
  • What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
  • Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
  • An Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
  • Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut

Snopes.com

  • Is John Thune 'no longer considering' SAVE America Act in Senate, as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna claimed?
  • Image claiming to show Trump's intact ear after assassination attempt is fake. Here's proof
  • Photo shows Israeli soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon
  • Unpacking WSJ report claiming aides kept Trump out of Situation Room during rescue of two US airmen in Iran
  • State Department reportedly sent $1.25B to Trump's Board of Peace. Officials stay mum

Tradeoffs

  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom

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