“For the first time this century, a tribe was stripped of its sovereign rights to land.“

The Visa Program That Helped Pay for Hudson Yards “Think of it as a form of creative financial gerrymandering.”

Universities should not ignore China’s persecution of scores of leading academics

AMNH Employees Revolt Over ‘Appalling’ Decision To Host Bolsonaro At Museum (See petition at bottom.)

“The Fliers of Gy” by Ursula K. Le Guin - LeVar Burton Reads

Democrats are playing dirty to shut out progressive new voices. They should rethink that strategy

Whatever you think of Julian Assange, his extradition to the US must be opposed

Game of Thrones Infographic : Illustrated Guide to Houses and Character Relationships

Remember when the KMT made an alliance with the Nazis to fight communists?

Netanyahu’s Israel embodies what Ze’ev Jabotinsky, his father’s hero, called ‘an iron wall of Jewish bayonets’

I saw this movie, and it didn’t end well for humans! “Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter“

“the language variety that she had learned at home growing up was a mix of Japanese, Atayal and Seediq, referred to as “Nihongo” (Japanese) by insiders or “Yilan Creole” by researchers“

Racial purity is “scientifically meaningless,” say 8,000 geneticists

Automatic tax prep, like trains and health care, among the many no-brainers brainless Americans continue to oppose… “Congress is set to pass a bill making taxes harder“

Doctors find bees in Taiwanese woman’s eye, feeding on her tears (The headline feels like the start of a magical realist novel… Even more so because they got in while she was cleaning her ancestor’s grave!)

So you spent years of hard work and all your money to make your first feature length documentary. Maybe spend more than 30 seconds writing the description?

“Schools are shaming students with low app scores. Government offices are holding study sessions and forcing workers… to write reports criticizing themselves.“

Quaker Oats is a major brand in Taiwan, but none of my students know what a Quaker is…

Wanhua entrance

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized and Available Online

Villanova prof contracted sepsis and needed an amputation — and her health plan wouldn’t pay

Sydel Silverman, 85, Dies; Defended Anthropology in Academia

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Globally, one in five deaths are associated with poor diet

House Makes History, Passes Sen. Bernie Sanders’ War Powers Act Resolution for Yemen