Why Scientists Should Be Tracking a Catastrophic Pig Disease
It has caused huge alarm in China and across Europe; more than 300,000 pigs have died of the disease or been culled in attempts to stop the virus spreading. Maybe you missed it.
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Lemony Snicket Replaced By Anita Hill As Wesleyan Commencement Speaker
Children's book author Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket, will no longer be giving the commencement speech at Wesleyan College this may. Snicket resigned after finding himself the target of student protests amid allegations that he had a penchant for making inappropriate sexual remarks to female authors.
Stephen Miller’s un-Jewish tradition: Hostility toward immigrants
There have been plenty of American policymakers with ideologies similar to those of Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's staunchly anti-immigrant senior policy adviser. And if those men had had their way when Miller's Jewish ancestors tried to immigrate to this country, he wouldn't be in a position to discriminate against others today.
It’s Racism, Stupid. America’s Persistent Racial Wealth Divide
A new study shows the legacy of racism far outweighs individual financial decisions in driving the growing gap between black and white families. No myth around around our staggering racial wealth divide may be more entrenched than the notion that black and brown people have less money because they've made poor personal decisions.