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‘From tokenism to true diversity’: Carter’s influence on politics rooted in his small town past

Jimmy Carter grew up in Archery, Georgia with 20 other families – only two of which were white – according…

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‘In a new realm’: China’s escalating cyberespionage leaving the U.S. ‘so vulnerable’

On Friday, the U.S. announced sanctions on China’s Integrity Technology Group, a cybersecurity firm linked to the Chinese hacking group…

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When President Jimmy Carter tried to bring ‘pro-democratic alignment’ to Iran

Author and scholar Reza Aslan was a child in Iran when President Jimmy Carter made history with his 1977 visit…

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‘Flawed, ill fated, unreliable’: Bryan Stevenson on the ‘barbaric’ capital punishment system

President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In response, President-elect…

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‘Unfinished business’: lawmakers push Biden to exonerate civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

21 Members of Congress sent a letter urging President Biden to exonerate the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. The…

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GOP Rep. Don Bacon pushes back on Bannon and Musk: ‘Hyperpartisanship does not work’

The 118th Congress spent its final days embroiled in another debacle over a spending bill, and it almost brought the…

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‘A form of unfreedom’: how the omission of public data becomes propaganda

Texas says the state committee that reviews pregnancy-related deaths will not look at cases from 2022 and 2023, the first…

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Why targeting the FDIC would mean economic disaster

The incoming Trump administration has reportedly started looking into ways to drastically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank…

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‘Prototype example’: How Syria’s civil war drove a refugee crisis still unsolved today

With Syria’s long civil war over and many countries hoping that Syrian refugees return home, the path forward is not…