Today, our editors have compiled a list of stories that explore the legacy and meaning of Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and some other reads from recent weeks that are worth your time. |
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| | The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of its test tubes should be concerned. | |
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| | Megan Kasper, an ob-gyn in Nampa, Idaho, considers herself pro-life, but she believes that the state’s abortion ban goes too far. (Bethany Mollenkof for The Atlantic) | |
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| | In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk. | |
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| | To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. | |
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| | Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI. | |
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| | Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East | |
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- What do you know about 1491?: The past few decades have seen more and more research that changes the popular narrative about America before Columbus, Charles C. Mann explains in a conversation with Shan Wang.
- Return the national parks to the tribes: The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples, David Treuer argues.
- “Making a Monument Valley”: “Hook a right down Bunker Hill, the one with the city Indians,” Kinsale Drake writes in a poem. “Their ghosts shadow the eucalyptus trees.”
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