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The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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What Men Want
A variety of reef fishes swim among the staghorn coral in Mo’orea, French Polynesia as a researcher swims overhead.

Crunching on Coral

Life at the Margins

A History of Violence

In Good Company

In a Class of its Own

A Step Beyond
A woman experiences zoom fatigue

Mapping Hell

A Serendipitous Study