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Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors.

It is our finding, based upon our investigation, that the Lasalin massacre was directed and facilitated by the Moise/ PHTK government.

[T]ransforming the countryside was not merely a patriotic activity but explicitly a military one in which the enemy was nature itself.

White students have lower exposure to students of other races than any other group of students. The typical white student attends a school that is 69% white.

“The fact that it is a Communist who denounces injustice in the courts, police brutality, and lynching when it happens doesn’t change the truth of his charges."

It’s not enough to settle for having a flat, oversimplified version of feminism on television. The conversation is nuanced and deserves representation as such.

The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.

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Facing an ailing economy, leftwing populists from Huey Long to Paul Wellstone primarily blame Wall Street, big business and the politicians whom they fund. Rightwing populists from George Wallace to Pat Buchanan also blame Wall Street, but put equal if not greater blame on the poor, the unemployed, the immigrant, and the minorities, who, like the coupon-clipper on Wall Street, are seen as economic parasites.

Among the remarkable features of Judge Treu's ruling is the absence of any understanding of how to provide better teachers to students more consistently, or even how to measure quality. He seems to think it's a simple matter of pointing at "bad" teachers and running them out the door.