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How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death?

How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death? How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death?

The Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice will face no state criminal charges.

Dec 29, 2015 / Dani McClain

Graduate workers and supporters rally around Grant Mao at Yale University, December 8, 2015.

Who’s Fighting the Mental-Health Crisis on Campus? Unions. Who’s Fighting the Mental-Health Crisis on Campus? Unions.

Grant Mao wanted to get back on track. Yale wanted to get rid of him.

Dec 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen

December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born

December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born

“What [The Recognitions] lacks, like all claustrophobic works of art, is imagination.”

Dec 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Russ Feingold Warns Against ‘Yet Another Rush Toward a Full-Scale Ground Invasion’ of Syria and Iraq

Russ Feingold Warns Against ‘Yet Another Rush Toward a Full-Scale Ground Invasion’ of Syria and Iraq Russ Feingold Warns Against ‘Yet Another Rush Toward a Full-Scale Ground Invasion’ of Syria and Iraq

The veteran senator and US envoy says that “we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past.”

Dec 28, 2015 / John Nichols

Faculty Forward members at Loyola University Chicago rally for better treatment of adjunct professors.

Adjuncts at Loyola University Chicago Want a Union. Will the Jesuit University Respect Their Demands? Adjuncts at Loyola University Chicago Want a Union. Will the Jesuit University Respect Their Demands?

Over the past 10 years, the proportion of adjunct and contingent faculty at Loyola has tripled—as tuition has ballooned.

Dec 28, 2015 / Michelle Chen

December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published

December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published

“The duty is not only to memorialize the fallen, it is also to confront the living.”

Dec 28, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Serena Williams at Wimbledon

Women Roar: The Story of the Year at the Intersection of Sports and Politics Women Roar: The Story of the Year at the Intersection of Sports and Politics

2015 had no shortage of stories on the political edge of sports, but it was the play of female athletes that will mark the past year in history.

Dec 27, 2015 / Dave Zirin

December 27, 1932: Radio City Music Hall Opens

December 27, 1932: Radio City Music Hall Opens December 27, 1932: Radio City Music Hall Opens

“All at once there is a vast firmament overhead, and a great distance stretching out under it.”

Dec 27, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

December 26, 1991: The Soviet Union Dissolves

December 26, 1991: The Soviet Union Dissolves December 26, 1991: The Soviet Union Dissolves

“However cruelly it developed, the union of peoples from Minsk to Vladivostok had the potential to improve the lives and realize the dreams of millions.”

Dec 26, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

December 25, ~4 BCE: Jesus Christ Is Born (Allegedly)

December 25, ~4 BCE: Jesus Christ Is Born (Allegedly) December 25, ~4 BCE: Jesus Christ Is Born (Allegedly)

“It was Christmas morning. I was looking for the light of quiet healing, the brightness of good-will, that should usher in the friendly open hand in place of the old, clenched, sha...

Dec 25, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

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