The Family Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a Black CommunityIn the second half of the 20th century, the establishment and expansion of public universities across Virginia uprooted Black families, hindering their efforts to accumulate wealth in the most American way — homeownership. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
For Years, This Popular Test Measured Anyone’s Racial Bias. But It Might Not Work After All.People took the implicit association test to gauge their subconscious racism. The researchers behind the test admit it can’t always do that.
The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning BackwardThere is a sour tendency in cultural politics today — a growing gap between speaking about the world and acting in it. In the domain of rhetoric, everyone has grown gifted at pulling back the curtain.
US most preferred destination for Indian students to study abroad: Survey Despite concerns over affordability, safety, and security, the US remains the top choice for 69 percent of Indian students seeking higher education abroad. The UK comes a distant second at 54 percent, Canada at 43 percent and Australia at 27 percent, according to a report based on a survey.
Are Coffee Grounds Good for Plants? An Expert Weighs InAre coffee grounds good for your plants? You might wonder this after hearing the advice to add coffee grounds to your garden soil and houseplants to help your plants thrive. Or maybe you've visited coffee shops that are giving away bags of their used grounds for customers to use in the garden.
‘People would never forget these shoes’: the fight to preserve soles of Stutthof Nazi campAt the foot of a pine tree, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski bent to touch the black, moist shapes nestling amid the fungi and leaf mulch.
Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Sympathizer’ Confronts Hollywood’s History of the Vietnam WarIn this satire from HBO and A24, Robert Downey Jr. plays four (!) different characters: a CIA operative, a college professor, a conservative politician, and an eccentric Hollywood director (sometimes all at once).
Supreme Court weighs whether cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping outsideToday, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a major homelessness case for the first time in decades, with arguments over whether people can be punished for sleeping outside if there's no shelter available.
The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of CollapseFor PEN America, the window to salvage this year’s literary awards and World Voices Festival—as well as perhaps the wider reputation of the organization—is rapidly closing.
A Garden of VersesIn September 1598, not far from the handsome courtyards of London’s Royal Exchange, the bookseller Cuthbert Burby began selling a popular title. Most of Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury; Being the Second Part of Wits Commonwealth was not written by Francis Meres, whose name was on the cover.
7 Spring Albums That You Don’t Need to Fight About OnlineOne assurance of navigating the vast expanse of social media is that The Discourse never stops. It's: death, taxes, and never-ending discourse. Mass consensus is all but extinct. More than anything, fandoms dictate so much of conversation today.
The Fate of Israel’s Hostages After Iran’s Rocket AttackOn Saturday night, Matty Dancyg was at home in the southern Israeli town of Sde Boker when Iran launched a huge rocket strike on Israel, to retaliate for the recent assassination of a top commander in the Revolutionary Guard.
8 Sci-Noir Books that Blend GenresIn the world of reading, science fiction books give us futuristic and/or speculative worlds that ask and answer questions about what we would be like with access to advanced technologies.
Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitismThe most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions and values. And what better place to test ideas, assumptions and values than at a university?
The Notorious Pirate King Who Vanished With the Riches of a Mughal Treasure ShipSome said the pirate king went to ground in London or Scotland, others that he died penniless and was buried in an unmarked grave in Devon. Or was he sipping fine French wine in the hills above Marseille? Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Henry Avery stealthily steered past Hog Island.