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people in India working on top of large bags of waste
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Dana Kornberg
Workers in India's waste economy

Race and caste capitalism: Who gets access to status and wealth?

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Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight
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Matt Perko
Giuliana Perrone, October 2023

Freedom in the aftermath of slavery: historian Giuliana Perrone tracks the failures of American law
An illustration of a diversity of hands holding cell phones transmitting fake news
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Technology and democracy in crisis: time to ‘get uncomfortable and get curious’
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Storytelling is the ideal lens through which to view the light, and the shadows, of California
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Charmaine Chua is a 2023 Freedom Scholar

Charmaine Chua is named a 2023 Freedom Scholar
Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.
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Matt Perko
Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh
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Matt Perko
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, September 2023

From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19, scholar Bishnupriya Ghosh unpacks decades of research to better understand the complexities of living with viruses
Utility worker in an orange vest and hardhat stands in grass at a wind farm
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Wind energy projects in North America are more likely to be opposed by white, wealthy communities
Silvia Rodriguez Vega and book cover with children's drawing

Children’s drawings illustrate the hurt imparted by policies of family separation 
Historian Kate McDonald
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023

From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation
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Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.

Moral reasoning displays characteristic patterns in the brain, with distinctions between moral categories
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Professor Kyle Meng will serve as a senior economist in Washington
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To close digital divide, lawmakers succeed when focused on education and transparency
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