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by Contexts Magazine
About Contexts and its trends section, Dr. Laura Nelson (University of British Columbia) enthuses, “This is what we [sociologists] do: We take data and …
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by Chandra Reyna and Sydney Yarbrough
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona (Source: Unsplash). On Tuesday, a white man purchased a gun and within hours walked …
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by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
Photo by Changbok Ko (Source: Unsplash) COVID-19 has exposed America’s fragile fault lines associated with economic and racial inequality.
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by Rodrigo Dominguez-Martinez
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address. The address followed the longest government shutdown …
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by Chandra Reyna
More than 7,000 Central American migrants are currently in Baja California, Mexico, waiting to apply for U.S. asylum. They have traveled thousands of miles, …
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by Zach Richer
This is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Willy Wonka moment. The online retailer, consumer electronics giant, film studio, cloud computing company, and gourmet grocer announced a …
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by Hannah Cash, Kelsey Drotning, and Paige Miller
The word disaster conjures a variety of devastating images. Natural disasters can have unpredictable and frightening impacts on communities. Survivors of such events …
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by Justin Maietta
Before you keep reading on, stop for a moment and think about what you see in the picture above. February was …
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by Rose Malinowski Weingartner
Immigration statistics are everywhere, true or false. Need to clear something up in a lecture, a paper, or dinner table conversation? Lots of …
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by Polina Zvavitch
The author shows off her national pride at a daycare in Israel, 1996 There is truly something …
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