Ticks could spread weaponized bacteria – but B. burgdorferi that causes Lyme isn’t one of them.
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Sam Telford, Tufts University
Scientists know the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has been out in the wild since long before any biological weapons research could have focused on it. And that's just for starters.
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A damaged Confederate statue lies on a pallet in a warehouse in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, after protesters yanked it off its pedestal in front of a government building.
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Jordan Brasher, University of Tennessee; Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
Where do old Confederate statues go when they die? The former Soviet bloc countries could teach the US something about dealing with monuments from a painful past.
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John M. Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Difficult to pronounce, synecdoche is the form of rhetoric used by President Trump when he told four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “corrupt” countries they came from.
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John Broich, Case Western Reserve University
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don't share, writes one historian, is the label 'liberal.'
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Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Eric Hoyt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Two social scientists investigate why working-class white men are particularly receptive to President Trump's racist and anti-immigrant messages.
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