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The Delivery Revolution: The Rise of Home Births in the U.S.

Emi GlassJanuary 18, 2025January 18, 2025

“I wish somebody would have explained to me that there were different options before this happened to me. Sometimes that can save somebody from experiencing that same trauma.”  Samantha Jordan, a doula and birth photographer based in Northeastern Ohio, wishes…

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OPINION: The Clock Is Ticking on the Supreme Court’s Credibility Crisis

Logan Day-RichterJanuary 18, 2025January 18, 2025

Benjamin Franklin described the structure of the then-new American government as “a republic, if you can keep it.” That is to say, the very notion of American democratic governance is fragile and could collapse if imperiled.  The current Supreme Court…

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Udder Alternatives: A Milk Moo-vment

Natalia Armas PerezJanuary 18, 2025January 18, 2025

A handwritten chalkboard listing daily offerings and local favorites hangs next to the display counter at Scratch Baking, a small bakery in Milford, Connecticut. Lines often flow out the door as new faces and regulars stop by for their morning…

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Opinion: The Rise of a Brainrot Epidemic

Bernice GiticheOctober 29, 2024

It was a little past 4:45 in the afternoon, and I was hurrying to pick up my fifth-grade brother and his friends from soccer practice. As I approached the field, one of his teammates pointed sharply in my direction and…

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Politic Podcast: Episode 8 – From Barefoot Classrooms to the Ballot Box: An Interview with Babra Bhebe

Abyssinia HaileOctober 29, 2024January 31, 2025

Over two decades ago, Babra Ontible Bhebe was working in Binga, a remote area in the northeastern region of Zimbabwe. As a temporary teacher, she taught many students from the most impoverished villages in her country. Often, students made the…

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Stepping Up: The Political Power of Black Greek Life

Natalia Armas PerezOctober 29, 2024

Meredith Turner knew she wanted to “go Greek” after watching a step performance at Howard University. The Delta Sigma Theta sorority mesmerized Turner, a senior in high school at the time. Once she arrived at college in the fall, Turner’s…

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Never Again is Right Now: The Rise of the AFD in Germany

Nicole ChenApril 28, 2024March 26, 2025

“Faschisten sind keine alternative für Deutschland.” Fascists are not an alternative for Germany. “Kein platz für nazis.” No place for Nazis. “Nie wieder ist genau jetzt.” Never again is right now. From Berlin to Munich and from Hamburg to Dresden,…

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Journalism Isn’t Dying, it’s Transforming: The Metamorphosis of Journalism in a Digital Age

Lily Belle PolingApril 28, 2024

Anne Fadiman lives in Western Massachusetts, where each morning she reads the print edition of The New York Times, purchased from the gas station by her husband, and The Daily Hampshire Gazette, which waits for her at the end of…

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