This is a battle in the culture war that was never fully joined.
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The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us.
Just as the country was easing restrictions, a fourth wave hit some areas hard in early 1920, causing death and devastation.
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This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500?
Old-growth trees in Tongass National Forest, which holds nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as the United States releases each year by burning fossil fuels, are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.
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Why Christmas was the best time of year to escape slavery
Never mind the three wise following the star. In the slavery era, Christmas was all about following the North Star to freedom.
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Wright brothers vs. Smithsonian: the bitter feud over who invented the airplane
The Smithsonian gave credit to its director, Samuel Pierpont Langley, whose plane crashed into the Potomac River shortly after takeoff. The Wrights were not pleased.
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America’s first opioid crisis grew out of the carnage of the Civil War
America’s first opioid crisis grew out of the carnage of the Civil War. Tens of thousands of sick and injured soldiers became addicted, new research says.
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‘We are still here’
There are more than 570 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages in the United States. Still, too many people assume all American Indians are dead; they have an image in their heads of old black-and-white photos of western Plains Indians who performed in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. For many Native Americans, the message to the rest of society is simple: “We’re still here.”
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In Arbery’s death, an echo of the ‘sundown towns’ that banned and threatened Black people
The signs are gone now, but once they were a part of America’s roadside culture, posted along the highway at the town or county line, a blunt reminder of brutal racism.
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Facebook’s race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show
Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted pushback from “conservative partners.”
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Messonnier, Birx detail political interference in last year’s coronavirus response
The Trump administration repeatedly interfered with efforts by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year to issue warnings about the evolving coronavirus pandemic, six current and former health officials told congressional investigators in recent interviews.
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Front Porch Reflections 