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Busting Myths: Recreating universities for the 21st century without repeating the errors and myths of the 20th century
We live in an age of division. As the briefest glance at news media shows, contemporary universities are so often centers of differences, contradictions, and clashes between knowledge and ignorance off- and on-campus. One revealing site of combat…
// Opinion
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National Security Has Nothing To Do With Nuclear Weapons
(Presentations by Dr. Yurii Sheliazhenko, executive secretary of Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, at the International Peace and Planet Network conference in New York and at the 2022 World Conference against A and H Bombs in Hiroshima.)
“Thank…
// Opinion
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The 77th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
77 years ago (August 9, 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped an experimental plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly incinerating, asphyxiating and/or vaporizing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children.…
// Opinion
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Superintendent, Columbus Board of Education, also under teacher scrutiny at the bargaining table
More educators, reducing class sizes, and air conditioning are on the bargaining table between Columbus City School teachers and the Columbus Board of Education (the Board). But teachers are telling the Free Press that Superintendent Dr. Talisa…
// News