Saturday, January 18, 2025

Reasons to Be Cheerful — Part 7

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There are things in this world for which one can be thankful. To be sure, there is also misery and suffering in this world. The presence of ...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Obama 2008, Obama 2012 — Same Candidate, Different Campaigns

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In November 2008, Barack Obama won the election to become president. His campaign transmitted the idea that Obama was an outsider, not part ...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Lessons from the Pandemic: Architecture

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During much of 2020 and early 2021, researchers devoted much attention to the transmission of the virus which had disrupted daily life aroun...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Real Estate Red-Lining: Government Facilitates Racism

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“Redlining” is the practice of limiting homeownership in a town or in a neighborhood on the basis of race, or what is perceived as race. It ...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Reasons to Be Cheerful — Part 5

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Swedish researcher Hans Rosling made a career of pointing out that things in the world are often going better than people assume. His son an...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Kennedy and Laos: Evaluating JFK’s Foreign Policy

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An aging Republican president finishes his second and final term in office, leaves the White House, and moves into his countryside home to e...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

What They Didn’t Discuss in the Presidential Campaign: The Global Situation in 1960

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During the 1952 election season, the Cold War was front and center among the topics examined by the candidates, their parties, the news medi...