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Today marks two years since white nationalists staged a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to amplify the views of the alt-right movement. While many people were shocked and revulsed by the rally, which resulted in the death of a counterprotester, Holocaust and genocide scholar Jennifer Rich has made an effort to talk with alt-right college students who hold the rally in high regard and would enthusiastically attend a smiliar rally if one
were held. “As individuals,” she writes, “I’ve found a number of these young men to be willing to be challenged on their political thinking and engagement.”
Also today, the journalist who brought down “Jeffrey Epsteins of Victorian London,” why the 2020 census matters to rural Americans and how the Syrian war has halted archaeologists’ work.
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White nationalists participate in a torch-lit march on the grounds of the University of Virginia ahead of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 11, 2017.
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Jennifer Rich, Rowan University
A Holocaust scholar discusses what she learned from reaching out to alt-right students and capturing their reflections on the white nationalist Charlottesville rally of 2017.
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Politics + Society
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John Green, University of Mississippi
People living in rural and small town America have much at stake in the 2020 census. But census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.
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Jeff Broxmeyer, University of Toledo
President Trump has been assailed for making money from his Washington hotel that's frequented by those who want to curry favor with him. Turns out, getting rich off politics is an old tradition.
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Science + Technology
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Lubna Omar, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Armed conflict in Syria has been a disaster for the area's cultural heritage. A displaced archaeologist describes what's being lost.
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Peter Wilson, Australian Catholic University
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Christopher J. Ferguson, Stetson University
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