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What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath's copy of 'The Great Gatsby'

  • Written by Jeanne Britton, Curator, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina
Sylvia Plath stuck this bookplate into the front cover of her copy of 'The Great Gatsby.'Source, Author provided

As a rare books curator, I get to interact with first editions of novels I love, illustrated versions of my favorite poets’ works, and lavish editions of historical engravings.

In 2015, I started using the University of South...

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How activists are fighting racial disparities in school discipline

  • Written by Mark R Warren, Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston
Numerous data show black students are kicked out of school at disproportionate rates.Rido/www.shutterstock.com

Harsh and racially disparate discipline practices are widespread in America’s schools.

Not so long ago in Texas, for instance, 75 percent of black students had been suspended at some point in high school. For black males in Texas, 83...

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5 things to know about Guantanamo Bay on its 115th birthday

  • Written by Jana Lipman, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University

The naval base at Guantanamo Bay is quietly commemorating its 115th anniversary.

On Dec. 10, 1903, the United States established its first overseas military base on 45 square miles of Cuban territory.

Today, the base at Guantanamo Bay is infamously associated with images of Muslim detainees wearing orange jumpsuits – alleged terrorists...

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The Trump administration is scrapping a collaborative sage grouse protection plan to expand oil and gas drilling

  • Written by John Freemuth, Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
Female sage grouse at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming.USFWS/Tom Koerner, CC BY

The Trump administration has released plans to open up nine million acres of sage grouse habitat in six western states to oil and gas drilling. This initiative dramatically cuts back an elaborate plan developed under the Obama administration to steer...

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Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about – it's not likely to happen

  • Written by A Cecile JW Janssens, Research Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University
Babies to order. Andrew crotty/Shutterstock.com

When Adam Nash was still an embryo, living in a dish in the lab, scientists tested his DNA to make sure it was free of Fanconi anemia, the rare inherited blood disease from which his sister Molly suffered. They also checked his DNA for a marker that would reveal whether he shared the same tissue type....

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What French populists from the '50s can teach us about the 'yellow vests' roiling Paris today

  • Written by Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
Demonstrators march down Paris' Champs-Elysees Dec. 8.AP Photo/Michel Euler

The populist protests roiling France remind me of a similar anti-tax revolt that occurred in Paris nearly 65 years ago.

In January 1955, tens of thousands of French men and women gathered at the Porte de Versailles in Paris to express their disgust for the elites who had...

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Saudi Arabia is allying with Russia to shore up oil prices as OPEC's power wanes

  • Written by Gregory Brew, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
Saudi Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid Al-FalihAP Photo/Ronald Zak

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries likes to look united.

That’s evident when OPEC leaders meet in Vienna at the end of each year to decide how much oil its members will aim to produce the next year. There is always a show of...

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John Chau may have been influenced by past evangelical missions and their belief in power of faith

  • Written by William Svelmoe, Professor of History, Saint Mary's College
What might have motivated the young missionary killed on a remote island in India?AP Photo/Sarah Prince

The recent killing of a 26-year-old U.S. missionary, John Allen Chau, on a remote island in India has raised many questions about global evangelical Protestant missions.

Chau was on a personal mission to convert the Sentinelese, a protected tribe...

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Nominating a crony, loyalist or old buddy for attorney general is a US presidential tradition

  • Written by Austin Sarat, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Sen. Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump on the presidential campaign trail, February 2016.AP/John Bazemore

With President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would nominate former Attorney General William P. Barr to fill the position again, Trump chose a prominent Republican lawyer with extensive government experience to run the Justice...

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Mass protests in Colombia mar president's first 100 days but reveal a nation marching toward peace

  • Written by Fabio Andres Diaz, Researcher on Conflict, Peace and Development, International Institute of Social Studies
University students ask for a higher budget for public higher education.AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Ivan Duque has only been Colombia’s president since August, but already his government is in crisis.

The country that has been gripped by near-constant protest since the 42-year-old conservative took power. But the mass demonstrations that...

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