On November 6, Americans across the country will be marking their ballots. Up for the taking is a third of the U.S. Senate, every House seat, and a multitude of state and local positions and propositions…
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With eleven propositions on the ballot Tuesday, on topics from state bonds to rent control to ambulance workers, voters understandably struggle with sorting through all the ballot measures and their potential impacts on everyday life…
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Belgian artist Rene Magritte is well-known for using his skills to explore philosophical concepts. In his surrealist painting “The Treachery of Images,” he depicts a realistically shadowed and sculpted pipe, under which the caption “this is not a pipe” appears…
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Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in northwest China, live in a real-life Orwellian police state. Throughout the Xinjiang Region are security checkpoints where residents must scan identification cards…
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