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"Hearing each others' stories, we have a chance to understand the causes and conditions that gave rise to even the worst things we do to one another. Stories don't offer excuses, but they offer a window -- however cloudy -- into how and why someone did a terrible thing to us or the people we love."

Not so far back, those who opposed the Iraq War were smeared as supporters of Saddam Hussein, a charge that honest anti-war activists easily dismissed. Defending Syria from foreign aggression and advocating the right of Syrians to choose their own future apparently makes one an “Assad apologist"...

It is almost too horrible to imagine. Today, Israeli snipers again opened fire on unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza. So far, 52 are confirmed dead and the death toll will likely continue to climb.

The government’s proposed railway reforms will force yet more traffic onto the country’s overcrowded roads, even as people in the provinces and regions lose mobility, convenience, and time.

The French president has proposed a controversial higher education reform at a particularly inopportune moment, sparking major protests.

In this study, we analyze data on recent young college graduates (ages 21–24) to learn about the Class of 2018’s economic prospects as they start their careers.

As other cities and states have moved to ban using solitary confinement as punishment for teens, the practice has increased at one of the largest juvenile jails in the country.

An artificial-intelligence technique called deep learning has now been used to model spatial navigation. The system develops a representation of space similar to that of the grid cells found in the mammalian brain.

The Israeli government and its lobby, and its neoconservative US allies, convinced Donald Trump to sabotage the Iran deal. The forces that pushed for the Iraq war 16 years ago are sowing destruction again. The broken Iran treaty leaves no doubt; you cannot resist Trump without resisting Israel.

In September 2017, artist and scholar Yevgeniy Fiks visited the Jewish Autonomous Region to see what it is, instead of what it was expected to have been. He shared two essays with us, “Before Birobidzhan” and “Diocese of Birobidzhan”, originally published on his website http://yevgeniyfiks.com.