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It was a frame-up…
source As political discourse in the U.S. has devolved into the nastiest kind of spitting match– dramatic thesis, passionate antithesis, no synthesis– antagonists on all sides of every issue invoke...
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Time Capsule…
Isotype, the visual language pioneered by Austrian sociologist, philosopher and curator Otto Neurath and his wife Marie in the 1930s, shaped modern infographics and visual storytelling. America and...
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“Round round get around, I get around”*…
Distribution of early Byzantine items and contemporary imitations found outside of the boundaries of the mid-sixth-century empire, along with a depiction of the empire during the reign of Justinian...
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“Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get...
John Stuart Mill, the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century, is today best remembered as the author of On Liberty… in which he argues, relentlessly and over the...
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“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one”*…
Louisiana Senator Huey Long announcing his presidential candidacy to members of the press in 1935 Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, the reality that corporations in the U.S. are...
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“It’s called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the...
A series of racially-charged incidents of “loitering” have triggered national outrage recently. America’s laws against lingering have roots in Medieval and Elizabethan England; since 1342, the goal...
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