92% of adults view museums as nonpartisan sources of education. This rare level of confidence gives museums both an opportunity and a responsibility to model how people might think and listen together, explains one museum director.
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How museums can help rebuild trust in a divided America
As social divisions grow, museums provide forums for civic connection and discourse across political and cultural lines.
“Environmental amnesia” lets critics focus on costs of laws, while forgetting why these laws were needed and the real benefits they delivered, according to an environmental law professor. The “Documerica” project shows in clear photographic evidence how dirty the U.S. used to be.
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The US used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
Critics of environmental protection laws may have forgotten how much progress has been made.
When cities burn, plastics, electronics, cleaning chemicals and more create a toxic brew. An environmental health scientist studying the #LAFires found that some chemicals can be more concentrated indoors than outside, posing real health risks.
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LA fires 1 year later: Chemicals from smoke lingered inside homes long after the wildfires were out – studies tracked the harm
When cities burn, plastics, electronics, cleaning chemicals and much more create a toxic brew. Studies launched during the LA fires a year ago show...
Today’s voters don’t evaluate scandal as citizens: they evaluate it as fans. Democrats and Republicans both seek to punish misdeeds by the other side but rationalize them for their own team, explains a professor who has written a book on how politicians survive scandal.
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Voters shrug off scandals, paying a price in lost trust
Scandals don’t have the resonance they used to. Both parties could do more to police offenders within their own ranks.
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the US mission to seize Venezuela’s president. A military strategist and former Latin America policy adviser to the U.S. State Department breaks down what we know about the planning and execution:
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How Maduro’s capture went down – a military strategist explains what goes into a successful special op
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the mission to seize Venezuela’s president in Caracas.
“If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority. Outside rule invites resistance, not stability.” - Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University, scholar of international security
How Maduro’s capture went down – a military strategist explains what goes into a successful special op
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How Maduro’s capture went down – a military strategist explains what goes into a successful special op
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the mission to seize Venezuela’s president in Caracas.
Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy
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Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy
If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot cr...
5 scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela — and what they could signal to the wider region
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5 scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela — and what they could signal to the wider region
President Donald Trump has said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela until a ‘safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place. But that still ...
Trump didn’t seek congressional OK before Venezuela attack. A political scientist who wrote the book on the politics of war powers explains the legality:
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I wrote a book on the politics of war powers, and Trump’s attack on Venezuela reflects Congress surrendering its decision-making powers
Congress has a legal, constitutional and even moral responsibility to assert itself as a branch when it comes to military actions by the US, says a...