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For weeks, Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have been flying and busing undocumented immigrants to Democratic-run states and cities, such as New York and Washington, D.C.
Outside of the right-wing media ecosystem, the trips have mostly flown under the radar – that is, until DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard-bound flight of Venezuelan immigrants made headlines around the world.
It’s tempting to dismiss it all as a mere political stunt. But historian Greta de Jong sees disturbing parallels – in action and rhetoric – to the way some Southern segregationists dealt with Black citizens during the civil rights era. As part of a broader effort to purge their communities of Black Americans, segregationists put them on buses with one-way tickets to Northern cities in what were called “reverse freedom rides.”
“Then, as now,” de Jong writes, “the message was, ‘Here, you love them so much, you take care of them.’”
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Nick Lehr
Arts + Culture Editor
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An undocumented immigrant from Venezuela kisses the forehead of another immigrant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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Greta de Jong, University of Nevada, Reno
In the civil rights era, ‘reverse freedom rides’ were more than just a political stunt. They were part of a systematic effort to deprive Black Americans of their livelihoods and force them out.
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Ethics + Religion
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Paul Hammer, University of Colorado Boulder
A scholar of British history explains how the church and its significance to the monarchy have changed over centuries.
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Trisha Tucker, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The US is seeing more campaigns to ‘protect’ children by barring controversial books. But research shows children’s reading experiences are complex and unpredictable, explains a literature professor.
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Science + Technology
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Logan Blue, University of Florida; Patrick Traynor, University of Florida
AI-generated voice-alikes can be indistinguishable from the real person’s speech to the human ear. A computer model that gives voice to the dinosaurs turns out to be a good way to tell the difference.
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Cagri Kilic, West Virginia University
Discarded pieces of landing gear, crashed spacecraft and wear and tear have produced a lot of debris that is now scattered around the Martian surface.
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Economy + Business
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Surupa Gupta, University of Mary Washington
Economic growth picked up significantly for both India and Pakistan after independence, but they’ve chosen very different paths since.
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Environment + Energy
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Gayatri Kathayat, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Ashish Sinha, California State University, Dominguez Hills
As water dripped in a remote cave, it left behind evidence of every monsoon season for a millennium. Scientists say it holds a warning for a country about to become the most populous on Earth.
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Politics + Society
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Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Remarks by the US president come amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing and follow a contentious visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Education
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Tuan D. Nguyen, Kansas State University
It’s not just COVID-19. Low salaries, subpar working conditions and lack of resources in the classroom are three of the reasons why teachers are abandoning the profession.
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