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Is the U.S. becoming more paranoid?
In 2015, a high school student from Texas named Ahmed Mohamed was taken into custody after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for an explosive. This event, however bizarre, was not unprecedented. Two years earlier, residents of Tyler — again in Texas — were evacuated from their homes as federal agents “dismantled” yet another science project, this one made by a local 8-year-old. Today, stories like these are often cited as proof that American society is becoming increasingly paranoid — an...
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When did dogs become our best friends?
The river known today as the Adige, the second-longest in Italy, flows south and then east from the Alps to the Adriatic. As it travels around hills and through flatlands, the river meanders widely, sometimes nearly looping back on itself. The city of Verona took root and grew around one of these meanders more than 2,000 years ago and, around that time, not far from the banks, an infant was laid to rest in a humble grave. She did not go into the afterlife completely alone, however. Alongside her...
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Do you wish your country would become normal again?
Would it be nice if universities suddenly became passively progressive again, instead of shamelessly revolutionary? Should national holidays return to…What to read next: Canada is the country to watch for conservatives | ABC failed fact check on Dick Smith: ‘Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?’ | Broken promises, broken budgets | JK Rowling puts Wikipedia’s neutrality to the test