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The world famous Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is to become a mosque once again. A site of great religious significance to both Christians and Muslims, it’s stood there in some form or...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, July 14, 2020 France Marks Bastille Day This July 14 with Special Recognition for Doctors...

Five peer-reviewed animal studies from the U.S. and Argentina released over the last two weeks have focused minds on the infertility crisis being caused by glyphosate-based herbicides...

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Brahma Chellaney, OPEN Magazine FIGHTING TWO BATTLES simultaneously — one against Chinese aggression in Ladakh and another against the China-originating coronavirus — India...

A nation that convinces itself that it's history is a myth; it's heroes were mere legends;which considers teaching young from earliest School level it's history is a Sin...

David Dayen of The American Prospect reports in his series “Unsanitized” that Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans are hammering out a new coronavirus relief bill, but its...

With a continued focus on the coronavirus (or in the case of Conan, an interest in avoiding it) and a decreasing amount of new entertainment content to promote, the late night and daytime...

By Paul Homewood   Why do the BBC need three environmental reporters, when all they do is cut and paste the latest alarmist study without actually doing any cross checking or ask awkward...

By Die kalte Sonne Atlantic region near Iceland has cooled over the past 120 years. Image: NASA (public domain) (German text translated by P. Gosselin) There are areas of the world...

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Facing Uncertainty: Opening Schools During a Pandemic As an ex-superintendent of schools (I served seven years in Arlington...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The Jacobin Left is just now beginning to get edgy.  A few of its appeasers and abettors are becoming embarrassed by some of the outright racists...

From the Electoral College to structural racism, America is feeling painfully aware of its inherent flaws these days. None looms more ominously now than that awkward moment that...

1. Brent Tarter, Virginians and Their Histories.  The best book I have read on the history of Virginia, by an order of magnitude.  And in turn that makes it an excellent book on race...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: These are the worst of times. Police brutality in Minneapolis murdered a black man who allegedly used a fake $20 bill. Petty crimes are adjudicated...

While not offering direct payments to black citizens, the resolution apologizes for the city's role in unjustly enslaving, segregating and incarcerating Black people and will...

Human rights groups, activists, and local politicians are decrying what appears to be the Trump administration’s latest tactic to crush nationwide protests that erupted in late...

Eating Lunch At Your Desk Again? Study Examines Why Workers Don't Always Take Breaks(tags:psychology work food working_hours )Feeling Anxious About Wearing A Mask? Here Are 5 Ways...

I guess the guy who owns Goya Foods is a big Trump supporter and donor and whatnot, as a certain variety of extremely rich people sometimes are, and so people are boycotting Goya foods...