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Column: Two Chicago authors met at an AIDS conference hundreds of miles from home. Now they’re teaming up to keep the epidemic on people’s radar.
Chicago is becoming a hub for writing about AIDS, with two new books by Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Victoria Noe joining Rebecca Makai's “The Great Believers.”
CO2 and other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Introduction
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas essential for life- animals exhale it, plants sequester it. It exists in Earth's atmosphere in comparably small concentrations, but is vital for sustaining life. CO2 is termed a greenhouse gas (GHG) – a...
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lillian E. Smith: Part II
On March 10, 1956, Lillian Smith wrote a letter to Martin Luther King, Jr. She told him how much she admired his work and how she thought that King’s approach would be successful. She tells K…
CO₂ emissions and GDP per capita
Annual consumption-based emissions are domestic emissions adjusted for trade. If a country imports goods the CO₂ emissions needed to produce such goods are added to its domestic emissions; if it exports goods then this is subtracted.
India just redefined its citizenship criteria to exclude Muslims
With a new law — and massive new detention camps — the country is undermining its status as a democracy.
Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen
After finding myself fatigued towards the end of the semester by all the British domestic drama of Austen’s oeuvre, I zone out during a class period and think, “These novels are some big-time white…
Democrats ‘got completely rolled’ in NDAA talks, critics say
The final defense authorization measure for the current fiscal year represents a victory for Republicans, a large number of angry Democrats say.
Census Data on the Number of Kids Being Raised by One Parent
Statistics on single parents from the U.S. Census Bureau paint a surprising portrait, upending many stereotypes.
For Asian Americans, racial mobility has not meant full incorporation or equal status in US society.
Approval for interracial marriages in US society has increased drastically in the past 25 years, and Asians are at the forefront of this trend; one third of Asian marriages in the US are interracia…
This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry — The New York Times
A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees.
Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush
The use of drones aligned with Obama’s ambition to keep up the war against al Qaeda while extricating the US military from intractable ground wars, but the programme has drawn much criticism.
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Stand With Michael Vick Petition Goes Around After His 'Racist Detractors' Don't Want Him to Be a Pro Bowl Captain
Retired NFL quarterback Michael Vick has been selected to be an honorary captain of the Pro Bowl, which will take place on Jan. 26 in Orlando, Florida.
Marvel’s teenage heroes are Outlawed in this exclusive first look
The life of a teenaged superhero is never easy, but it’s about to get a lot harder for the young vigilantes of the Marvel Universe. March’s Outlawed one-shot introduces a new status quo that has the government cracking down on superheroes under the...
Dismantling the economy’s legal infrastructure V-5-d: The collapse of Bretton Woods and the entrenchment of Too-Big-to-Fail — Step 4: The LDC crisis
The LDC Debt Crisis By the end of 1981 Paul Volcker had demonstrated success in controlling inflation – having allowed the Federal Funds Rate to rise over 20%. 1982 would, however, prove to be a di…
Workers Are Heading Back to the Picket Lines
Despite job growth, employees face daunting precarity—and they’re fed up.