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Sunday Science: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

Dennis Overbye The New York Times
Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

Colonize Then, Deport Now

Jonathan Ort Africa is a Country
Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.

Bolsonaro Joins a Rogues’ Gallery of Coup Plotters

John Joseph Chin and Joe Wright The Conversation
When defeated at the polls, both Donald Trump and Bolsonaro tried to overturn the official results. Both attempted to alter vote totals after they had lost and block an election winner from being inaugurated. Bolsonaro faces 27 years in prison.

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?

Susan B. Glasser The New Yorker
While others were praying for a sane conversation around how to end the rapidly escalating problem of violence, for the President and Stephen MIller it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it

What I Got Wrong About D.E.I.

Eugenia Cheng The New York Times
Math teaches us that D.E.I. initiatives should be about carefully defining metrics we use to measure how far people have come, thus how far they have the potential to go. They should be about uncovering when some people are constantly running uphill
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