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‘Everyone, Everyone, Everyone’: How Pope Francis Tried to Build an Inclusive Church – and World

He aimed to open the doors to those of different sexual orientations, the poor, migrants and others left out by society.

Planning to Study in the US Under Trump? Five Things Indian Students Should Know Before Making the Move

With student visa rules tightening and university funding cuts looming, experts share what Indian students should know before heading to the US

Rachel Carson Raised the Alarm About Pesticides in Silent Spring, Changing Environmental History

Rachel Carson highlighted the environmental consequences of our actions in a way that had never been done before.

He’s 95, Healthy & Has No Regrets — Here’s What He Wants Every Young Indian to Know

It wouldn’t be a stretch to call 95-year-old Dr Bankey Lal Sharma my most enthusiastic protagonist of all time. On the designated interview day, his rising matches the sun’s.

Rejected by 16 colleges, hired by Google. Now he’s suing some of the schools for anti-Asian discrimination

Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 grade point average, a nearly perfect SAT score, had bested adults in competitive coding competitions and started his own electronic signing service all while still in high school.

It’s a Typical Small-Town Novel. Except for the Nazis

We know this kind of novel. Reliable as the seasons, its opening pages disclose a familiar reality. A hovering, Godlike narrator looks down upon a European border town and begins to describe it.

This is what happened after New Zealand banned phones in schools

One year after the government banned cellphones from schools to help students focus and reduce distractions in class, we’re beginning to see how it has been implemented and how successful it’s been. As part of that process, our new research asked young people about the ban.

Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime

You might have seen the various data points suggesting that Americans are losing their ability to reason. The trend starts with the young.

Worse than Orphans

‘The human family’, Henry Drummond wrote in The Ascent of Man (1894), is ‘the starting-point and threshold of the true moral life’. Man carries ‘old wild blood in his veins’, while woman makes a home: her passivity is ‘the embryo of patience’.

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Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes are a stain on the Catholic church - but this latest refusal to atone is a new low

There are some stories so horrifying that their details embed themselves in your flesh and haunt you for the rest of your days.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

A Note on Paywalls In order to publish compelling original work and pay writers a living wage, publications sometimes have paywalls.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.

We’re eating goose!

In 1524, astrologers warned of calamity in southern Germany: floods and failed harvests, sickness and war. The clergy would ‘drink the cup of bitterness’. But peasant disquiet was sufficiently visible to make planetary auguries redundant.

Librarians in UK Increasingly Asked to Remove Books, As Influence of US Pressure Groups Spreads

Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles.

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‘Everyone, Everyone, Everyone’: How Pope Francis Tried to Build an Inclusive Church – and World

Planning to Study in the US Under Trump? Five Things Indian Students Should Know Before Making the Move

Rachel Carson Raised the Alarm About Pesticides in Silent Spring, Changing Environmental History

He’s 95, Healthy & Has No Regrets — Here’s What He Wants Every Young Indian to Know

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Rejected by 16 colleges, hired by Google. Now he’s suing some of the schools for anti-Asian discrimination

It’s a Typical Small-Town Novel. Except for the Nazis

This is what happened after New Zealand banned phones in schools

Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime

Worse than Orphans

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Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes are a stain on the Catholic church - but this latest refusal to atone is a new low

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?

We’re eating goose!

Librarians in UK Increasingly Asked to Remove Books, As Influence of US Pressure Groups Spreads

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