South Africa needs a fresh start, says new book: but does the argument hold up?

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Eddy Maloka, the South African historian, diplomat and academic, argues in his latest book the case for South Africa to forge a second republic. What is meant by this is left undefined, but emerges as the making of a new...

Schools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfires

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The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days. Among the devastation were 11 public and private schools and 30 child care facilities. In all, the fires disrupted the...

Christian Zionism hasn’t always been a conservative evangelical creed – churches’ views of Israel have evolved over decades

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During confirmation hearings, Mike Huckabee, President Donald Trumps nominee as ambassador to Israel, told senators that he would respect and represent the President, not his own views. But the Baptist ministers views on...

Research shows that a majority of Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change but have never mentioned it to their congregations

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Nearly 90% of U.S. Christian religious leaders believe humans are driving climate change. When churchgoers learn how widespread this belief is, they report taking steps to reduce its effects, as we found in our research...

The never-ending sentence: How parole and probation fuel mass incarceration

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The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local facilities. Another 3.7...

In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

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Thirty years ago in Israel, advocating for genocide could land you in prison. In April 1994, an Israeli rabbi named Ido Alba published an article that read, in part, In war, as long as the war has not been decided, it is a...

With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars

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I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits to local museums. I fondly remember trips to the Fellow-Reeves Museum in Wichita, Kansas, and the...