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Arts & EntertainmentJesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him
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CommentaryWe looked at 40 years of government data and found the U.S. at a ‘medium level’ of atrocity. Iran is ‘high level’
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Arts & EntertainmentVictorian-era ‘vinegar valentines’ show that trolling existed long before social media or the internet
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CommentaryYou love your dog too much. Blame the broken American Dream and loss of purpose since the pandemic
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LawHow Trump erased the story of George Washington’s slave, Ona Judge, who fled from Philadelphia to freedom
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CommentaryI’m a war gamer for the Navy and I know why you don’t trust the media anymore. It’s fighting yesterday’s battles
By Charles Edward Gehrke and The ConversationFebruary 9, 2026
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