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How Canada’s Record Wildfires Got So Bad, So Fast
Jul 20, 2023 | www.nytimes.com
Blazes have burned 25 million acres so far this year, and there’s still a month to go in peak fire season.
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Read the thousands of documents journalists used to investigate St. Louis radioactive waste • Missouri Independent
Jul 19, 2023 | Missouri Independent
MuckRock and The Missouri Independent are making all of the government documents it obtained as part of its “Atomic Fallout” investigation.
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Cambridge schools are divided over middle school algebra - The Boston Globe
Jul 18, 2023 | BostonGlobe.com
The district’s aim in eliminating advanced math in middle school was to reduce disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World
Jul 18, 2023 | www.nytimes.com
The most powerful countries have benefited from large work forces for decades. What happens when they retire?
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‘Atomic Fallout’: Records reveal government downplayed, ignored health risks of St. Louis radioactive waste for decades
Jul 12, 2023 | MuckRock
The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press spent months combing through thousands of pages of previously-unreleased government records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that show radioactive waste was known to pose a...
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Opinion | For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough
Jul 11, 2023 | www.nytimes.com
The loss of affirmative action is an opportunity to refocus on supporting middle- and lower-tiered colleges.
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The grass courts are now in session
Jul 11, 2023 | Reuters
Wimbledon is the only grass court Grand Slam
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Putin Is Caught in His Own Trap
Jul 02, 2023 | The Atlantic
After spending years cultivating public apathy, the Russian president found his people indifferent to his fate.
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Russia’s New Time of Troubles
Jul 02, 2023 | Foreign Affairs
It’s not 1917 in Moscow—it’s 1604.
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American Cities Have a Conversion Problem, and It’s Not Just Offices
Jul 01, 2023 | www.nytimes.com
There’s a Time Bomb in Progressives’ Big Supreme Court Voting Case Win
Jun 27, 2023 | Slate Magazine
What Chief Justice John Roberts left unresolved in his majority opinion is going to be hanging out there.
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Opinion | Putin looked into the abyss Saturday — and blinked
Jun 25, 2023 | Washington Post
The Russian leader survives, but the brazen challenge from the Wagner militia just adds to the disaster of his war in Ukraine.
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Putin’s Weakness Unmasked
Jun 25, 2023 | The New Yorker
How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion exposed the Russian President.
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Great Newspapers and the Problem of Underspending Billionaires
Jun 22, 2023 | open.substack.com
The Combat Codes: New book mixes sci-fi, BJJ and MMA
Jun 20, 2023 | Bloody Elbow
Black belt author Alexander Darwin gives fight and fantasy fans a great summer read with, “The Combat Codes”
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Prejudice and misconduct remain in Massachusetts high school sports — but the MIAA won’t say where - The Boston Globe
Jun 20, 2023 | BostonGlobe.com
A disturbing pattern of discriminatory acts persists across the state, according to a new tracking system. But the MIAA isn't interested in sharing details.
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How our weak public records law is enabling a cover-up of school sports harassment
Jun 20, 2023 | Media Nation
Sports builds character, we are told over and over again. And yet Massachusetts has been hit with multiple cases of racist, homophobic harassment aimed at high school athletes. 🗽The New England Muz…
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