🇺🇦 Even as the war rages on, Ukrainians are already thinking about how to remember the lives lost. Memorials can help societies heal, but how do you build them while the trauma is still unfolding?
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Ukraine is starting to think about memorials – a tricky task during an ongoing war
Human society has marked collective dead for millennia. Such monuments have changed with the evolving nature of conflict, something Ukraine is now ...
Nepal's recent social media ban sparked violent protests, fueled by a mix of economic hardships and online activism.
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How hardships and hashtags combined to fuel Nepal’s violent response to social media ban
Social media acted as both a magnifier and accelerator to protests, linking perceived injustice to on-the-ground activism.
400 parcels of land totaling 16,000 acres in California are held in trust by the federal government for Native Americans, presenting opportunities for Indigenous land stewardship. A research team is working to clarify obscure ownership records, making it easier for families to access and protect their land.
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What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire
Indigenous forest management practices can help control wildfires’ frequency and severity, while also restoring people’s connections to the land.
The Fed is poised to cut rates to boost a sputtering job market, but inflation is ticking up again. Economists warn: move too slowly, and the U.S. could face the worst of both worlds: stagflation. https://buff.ly/ZCwEac7
Charlie Kirk was killed on a Utah campus as a Colorado high school shooting left 2 teens injured and the student gunman dead. These events, like countless other incidents of gun violence, share features that will haunt many Americans for decades, writes a trauma psychiatrist.
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2 shootings, 2 states, minutes apart − a trauma psychiatrist explains how exposure to shootings changes all of us
As social media platforms make it easier for millions of people near and far to witness public violence, the harmful effects have far greater reach.
The NCAA now allows each sport to set its own rules for transgender athletes, resulting in a patchwork of policies. At the same time, some states passed laws barring transgender athletes from women’s competitions. A scholar examines the struggle to balance fairness with inclusion: https://buff.ly/PvdOuFZ
Microplastics are everywhere. With no global agreement in sight, local governments are stepping up with creative solutions. Sarah J. Morath, an environmental lawyer and the author of “Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It,” offers four promising strategies: https://buff.ly/vXsd0FH
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s show of unity with Putin and Kim could complicate China’s delicate diplomatic balance. An expert in Northeast Asian security explains: https://buff.ly/mIWmLe3
Republican-leaning economists tend to predict stronger economic growth when a Republican is president than Democrats do. Because of this partisan optimism, their forecasts end up being less accurate, a Wake Forest economist explains:
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Even professional economists can’t escape political bias
Partisan bias doesn’t stop with voters. When Republicans hold the White House, Republican economists consistently overshoot on growth forecasts.
Instead of chips or soda, Health To Go vending machines dispense drug-testing strips, hygiene kits, socks, soap, wound care supplies and Narcan — all free of charge. It’s part of a Pennsylvania pilot program to make harm-reduction resources easier to access. https://buff.ly/lvnLnwF