#Poverty

The Timbuktu Syllabus part 8Social Defeat How Black SA men became violent (Crime, GBV, Rape) Before European settlement, tribes had scuffles that lasted a few hours.Seldom was life lost in
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The rise of psychology paralleled the decline of Christianity in Europe. Psychology also relied heavily on Greek pagan thought for its worldview. Examining the traditional function of priests, it is
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i keep reading thoughts on 'why does michigan have such a militia problem' and they all feel so incomplete to me. they inevitably mention 1. economic stress 2. a place
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Honestly the national party is such a clusterfuck I can't But hey they represent their constituents quite well and isn't that what political parties are meant to do? If you're
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This news....about the EU barring travelers from the US is going to hit white, upper-middle-class ppl hard.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/europe/eu-reopening-blocks-us-travelers.html I keep thinking about the bars + restaurants +
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My elderly uncle is in Vietnam, where he has been living for several years.This is the letter he sent to family in the States: /1 Just in case any of
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Twitter is full of wrong takes on Labour's Hartlepool lossWas Labour too left/not left enough? Would Corbyn have done better than Starmer? Should Labour have been more/less pro-Brexit? Wrong candidate,
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Last week, following heavy press coverage of vigilante violence at protests, several analyses relied in part on my research to suggest Biden was likely to take a hit. A compelling
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1/16 COVID Epi This Week: The Peril and Promise of ImmunityCovid continues to spread in most of the US at rates too high for effective contact tracing, safe in-person schooling,
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Good evening everyone. While the Treasurer makes his budget speech, I thought it would be useful to translate what he actually means. Join me below “In the face of
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Thread on Guatemala’s "Independence" day. I know this day is very symbolic to many Guatemalans but it’s necessary that we begin to critically understand what this event set in motion
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This morning, I want to make the Case for why Economics is arguably the dopest discipline EVER.It boils down to one thing: Economists are the most versatile (social) scientists we
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We're safe from the fire, but the smoke has made outside look like another planet. I've sadly seen this before. It's oddly beautiful, in it's way. And there's really nothing
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Lots of takeaways from France's municipal elections (2nd decisive round took place last night), but the biggest to my mind won't get much attention outside France, and could be seen
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#EconTwitter JMP Thread Alert Safer Sex? The Effect of AIDS Risk on Birth Rates2 Min Video: https://bit.ly/3iTqFej Paper: https://melissakspencer.com/SaferSex.pdf Thread: Do STI avoidance behaviors affect birth rates? I investiga
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A lot of folks are disappointed by the lack of positive change we're going to see no matter the results of the election. But electoral politics was never where the
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