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<h3>“They see it as a tool of power.”</h3>

<h3>“They see it as a tool of power.”</h3>

Jack Jenkins, national reporter for the Religion News Service, joins the podcast to discuss the decline of religious importance and affiliation in the U.S.

Highlight New research indicates that many kidney transplant recipients may not be adequately protected against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants with the

Home Is Here In the Press Home Is Here They grounded an airplane, reunited children with their families, and led the charge to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). When the Trump administration pressed local and state governments to defund sanctuary cities and enforce a public charge rule, a small army of clinic students helped protect some of the most vulnerable members of our society. For the past four years, Yale Law School’s faculty and students have been on ...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat im vergangenen Jahr 4,7 Millionen Menschen der Mittelschicht in Lateinamerika und der Karibik gefährdet oder verarmt und damit möglicherweise Jahrzehnte des sozialen Fortschritts zunichte gemacht. Dies geht aus einem Bericht der Weltbank hervor, der am Donnerstag (24.) veröffentlicht wurde. Die Auswirkungen sind sogar noch dramatischer, wenn man den Effekt des massiven und zeitlich begrenzten Sozialtransferprogramms in Brasilien aus den Projektionen herausrechnet. ...

Z. Sitek / KUAF This week, the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Benton County Historical Society unveiled their plans for James H. Berry Park, which will be home to the Confederate monument that stood on the Bentonville square since 1908. The monument was removed earlier this month. It will be restored and eventually will be the centerpiece of the privately-owned park that will be open to the public.

Wikimedia Commons It is common for societies to erect statues in honor of soldiers who fought bravely for the country. The trouble with the statues of Confederate soldiers and warriors is that the people honored fought on the losing side: a side dedicated to the separation of the United States into two countries, one with slavery and one without. Lose the war, win the peace, if it can fairly be called that. You can see why theres no middle ground on Confederate monuments. Historian Karen Cox...

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to

Zwein during one of the 2019 protests in Beirut. Credit: Victoria El-Khoury Zwein BEIRUT, Lebanon, Mar 12 2021 (IPS) - The fight for equality around the globe has taken a few steps forward in some countries which provides a glimmer of hope for future generations for increased female participation and representation. However, that particular fight is taking new shapes and forms in multiple corners of the world, where women are still persecuted, silenced, threatened, killed, harassed, and stripp...