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Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social Worker
Libraries have never been just about books; they're also crucial hubs of community support. Some are even expanding that role, and supporting their librarians, by bringing in trained social workers.
Meet Morgan Beller, the 26-year-old woman behind Facebook's plan to make its own currency
Facebook Vice President David Marcus is the face of the company's Libra digital currency, but the original driving force was a 26-year-old female engineer named Morgan Beller.
It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
"One of the biggest mistakes the media punditry made about the 2016 election was underestimating the power of racist rhetoric in the campaign. There was a disconnect between what journalists of color were seeing and what white reporters were seeing."
Provocative conservative artist donates Trump artwork for Arizona GOP fundraiser
An original portrait of Trump — signed by the president and the artist — will be auctioned to help finance the state party's 2020 efforts.
A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children
With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent speaks about what it’s like to do his job. “Somewhere down the line people just accepted what’s going on as normal.”
The ruthless gold mercenaries who run Sudan
Accused of widespread abuses, the Rapid Support Forces sprang from "Janjaweed" militias linked to genocide in Darfur.
Colin Camerer
Incredible reporting from @BBCAfrica cobbled together from protestor phone video showing 3 June Khartoum massacre by RSF janjaweed. Protestors returned 30 June tho
phones >> guns?
We must hope so
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The Ham of Fate
Does Boris Johnson believe any of his own claims, and do his followers in turn believe him? In both cases, the answer is yes, but only in the highly qualified way that an actor inhabits his role and an audience knowingly accepts the pretense....
Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an Editor’s Power
“I didn’t invent the system. I just lived by the system.”
'Nudge' gets new push as NITI Aayog seeks behavioural economists to reform policy making
The ‘nudge unit’ will work with states governments to understand behavioural changes so as to make policies and programmes more effective.
Blog
Last April, I spent some time in West Africa and ended up in Kumasi, central Ghana, during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of what the locals refer to as the “enstoolment” of the current Ashanti king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Yes, enstoolment,...
Who’ll Take a Pay Cut for Free College?
‘It’s so inspiring, I’d do it for nothing.’ Put that piety to a test.
A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville
Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted "Send her back!" about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in America's slide toward fascism.
Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn’t’
The trailblazing computer scientist on being in charge of the software for the 1969 Apollo moon landing
Pence staffer says Elaine Chao is a better immigrant than Ilhan Omar
The VP's office goes after the congresswoman in an email to Mother Jones.
Trump Goes All In on Racism
The president’s tweets are an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning political strategy.
Order from Chaos
The more Caltech biochemist Shu-ou Shan learns about how proteins are made, the more she marvels that life exists at all.
Introduction to Diversity in Doctoral Education and Scholarship (IDDEAS)
Chicago Booth PhD program, was the first of it’s kind in the United States. Learn how we train prospective scholars to become highly skilled and impactful researchers.
Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations
Can personality traits be measured and interpreted reliably across the world? While the use of Big Five personality measures is increasingly common across social sciences, their validity outside of western, educated, industrialized, rich, and...
Brazil's Bolsonaro says he may nominate son as US ambassador
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he's considering nominating his son Eduardo to be ambassador to the United States