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How Synanon became a blueprint for problematic “tough love” rehabs.

Headlines from Douglas County's past.

'This year’s recipient of the Dodd Prize embodies the understanding that human rights are a cause that cannot be limited to individual countries'

UConn community and leaders, activists, academics, artists, policymakers, and students from across the country and around the world will come together in St ...

This week, over two million people in Gaza lack access to food, refrigeration, medicine and electricity because a settler-colonial occupier is trying to exterminate them. For Palestinians, the conflict you see on the news is a war for liberation and freedom. For Israel, it is the last push in a long history of attempted annihilation…

NUREMBERG, Dec. 13, 1945 (UP) -- The Nazi Gestapo in 1944 offered to "sell" 1,000,000 Hungarian Jews for $2 each and said the alternative was their extermination in concentration camps, the War Crimes Tribunal was told today.

NUREMBERG, Nov. 29, 1945 (UP) - A tense audience at the war crimes trial watched for 52 horror-packed minutes today a 6,000-foot American Army film baring conditions at Nazi concentration camps. The prosecution charged that the camps were an instrument of policy of German leaders, including the 20 men on trial in the courtroom, in their drive for power.

As school bells get back to ringing and students return to hitting the (electronic) books, educators and staff in elementary, middle and high schools are returning to their classrooms for another year of teaching the community’s youth. If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it was that teachers have a really hard job.

James Waller, eminent scholar of the Holocaust and genocide studies, will combine classroom learning with human rights practice

Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker died Wednesday at 92 after a short illness.