What the history of iconoclasm tells us about the Confederate statue controversy
Over the course of human history, symbols and monuments have invoked violent impulses and destruction.
Over the course of human history, symbols and monuments have invoked violent impulses and destruction.
Why the Spanish Prime Minister keeps choosing a strategy of confrontation.
After the Maduro regime won Venezuela's recent gubernatorial elections, results are contested, people are desperate…
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Digital innovations are making it easier to give to charity and for donors to become informed before they support nonprofits.
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The president is urging lawmakers to end the program in the aftermath of the deadliest attack in New York City since 9/11.…
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Ecuador's new president, Lenin Moreno, has been disavowed by the party that brought him to power, after a harsh dispute…
Many in the Western world lack the explicit mourning rituals that help people deal with loss. On Day of the Dead, two scholars…
With open enrollment for the Obamacare exchanges set to begin Nov. 1, big changes could occur. Insurers raised their premiums,…
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The Republican tax plan would ultimately make the current system less progressive while reducing the overall burden, two…
Guyana is on the verge of an oil bonanza that could bring in US$1 million a day. But if it's not careful, this poor…
The FBI and police officials say they need to decrypt secure communications to fight crime. But they have other options,…
If we think about universities as corporations and their sports teams as marketing tools, everything about the UNC academic…
Millions of Americans rely on public transit to get to school, work or stores, but many can't get the service they need.…
Millions of people have imagined California, but only one man was its historian.
California dream of higher education combined access to higher education with affordability and choice. Berkeley became…
In 1978, Californians voted to pass Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes and ushered in an era of underinvestment,…