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Courtesy Jason Lapeyre
Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s

Seeking inner peace, finding moral rot

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Black man with trays of different insects
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Umberto Diecinove
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Jigna Desai - a woman with dark hair and glasses with brown skin
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Jeff Liang
Professor Jigna Desai, director of UCSB's Center for Feminist Futures
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man in sweater with grey white hair inside a black sculpture's shadow
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Debra Herrick
Nelson Lichtenstein
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six women facing the sea with their arms raised in heart hands
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Simona Pilolla
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Two hands in fingerless gloves hold a cardboard house
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iStock / pcess609

Is housing a human right?
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History doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill on Jeopardy
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A person walks past a Vote Here sign in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia
Climate concerns likely gave Democrats the White House in 2020