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White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it
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Native Americans are recasting views of indigenous life
By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Indian culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.
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How the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think
For centuries, we’ve given lavish attention to the specifics of punishment, and left Heaven woefully under-sketched.
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So Is Living Together Before Marriage Linked to Divorce or What?
Why researchers can't agree after decades of studies
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Led Zeppelin- Good Times And Bad Times
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How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race. By Joe Pinsker. (Sept. 4, 2018)
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Is the U.S. Knee-Deep in ‘Epidemics,’ or Is That Just Wishful Thinking?
It’s tempting to see each of the country’s creeping public disasters as an epidemic. But an epidemic would probably be a lot easier to solve.
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Greenwald - Why do they hate us?
Who is we?
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Genetic ancestry test users ‘cherry-pick’ which races to identify with
Genetic ancestry tests are often advertised as a tool to uncover new connections to diverse cultures and ancestries, but new research from the University of British Columbia has found people tend to pick and choose which races they identify with based on preconceived biases. Ancestry testing is part of a rapidly growing, billion-dollar industry that claims to use DNA to tell people about the parts of the world from which their ancestors originated.
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Study Links Parental Support and Career Success of Children
A recent study finds that young people who get financial support from their parents have greater professional success, highlighting one way social inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next. “The question underlying this work was whether parental support gives adult children an advantage or hinders their development,” says Anna Manzoni, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University and author of a paper on the work.
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Rare Photographs that changed Lives
Photographs by Lewis Hine that shook up early 20th-Century labour laws among those sold at US auction.
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Germans Quietly Pass an Equinox of Unity, but the Walls Remain
The Berlin Wall has been down as long as it stood. One generation lived with the wall, one without it. But in many ways it is still a tale of two countries.
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Five Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed
A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. By Alexandra Gedrose. (May 6, 2008)
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Zoöpolis
Jennifer Wolch conceptualizes an urban theory that takes nonhumans seriously.
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Apologizing All the Time Could Be a Sign of Anxiety
The urge is often involuntary—and has little to do with actual remorse.
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War once helped build nations, now it destroys them
Cooperation, mutual dependence, trust – even in killing others – are building blocks of political order, the foundational elements of states.
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Having children is not life-affirming: it’s immoral – David Benatar
You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation.
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Is the American Mafia on the Rise?
Expert Selwyn Raab on how September 11th helped the Mob evade annihilation and rebuild into the 21st century
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This map shows what white Europeans associate with race – and it makes for uncomfortable reading
Implicit racial bias, measured across Europe.
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Not So Unique? a Key Feature of The Human Brain Has Just Been Found in Monkeys
We humans think we’re so special. To determine what sets us apart from the rest of the animal world, scientists investigate features that might be uniquely human, such as self-awareness or language. By Signe Dean. (May 26, 2017)
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