News & Current Events
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is published on Thursdays. I mention this because this is one of the rare times where my owning Mondays on this blog tends to be a
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March 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
I just finished reading Brotherhood to Nationhood by Peter McFarlane, the biography of the legendary First Nations leader and world indigenous organizer, the late Grand Chief
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At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California.
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In this interview she talks at length about colonization and decolonization – the physical and mental aspects of decolonization work for both indigenous and non-indigenous
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What makes environmental racism so insidious is that at first glance is that it seems to rely purely on numbers and nature: two realms that purportedly exist outside of
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Contrary to popular belief, women played a central role in Maya society before the arrival of Spanish explorers in the early 16th century, a University
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When the Spanish cultural center in downtown Mexico City wanted to expand, excavations uncovered a Smith & Wesson revolver, a partial figurine of Jesus – and the ruins
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Victims and human rights activists cheered when, on January 26, a Guatemalan court charged Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt with genocide and crimes against humanity. The decision to
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In This Month’s Underreported Struggles: Malaysian communities demand halt to twelve proposed dams; Mexico judiciary rules in favor of the Wixarika; New bill proposed
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Anti-immigrant lawmakers are keeping the country’s court system busy, and today will be an especially full day. In Atlanta, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral
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