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L’administration Trump veut faire figurer le président américain sur des pièces et billets. Une pratique presque exclusivement réservée aux monarchies héréditaires, selon une analyse des monnaies en circulation dans le monde.
Un abogado especializado en derechos civiles ofrece una guía para que los votantes conozcan sus derechos a la hora de votar.
Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as the source of her inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time.
On Election Day, you go to vote – and you’re told you’re not registered or you’re not eligible to vote. A civil rights lawyer provides a guide so voters can know their rights to cast a ballot.
Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.
It takes an entire team of electricity, calcium, energy and proteins all working together to move your muscles.
What communities and businesses really need is information they can act on, with examples of what’s worked elsewhere and why – and what fails.
A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a king or a queen.
Struggling to feel grateful? Try thinking differently about what caused the person’s actions.
Venus and Earth share some atmospheric quirks – but how did Venus get so unbearably hot, while Earth is mild and temperate?
La faille qui a rompu au Venezuela présente un mouvement et des risques similaires à celle de San Andreas en Californie. Elles ont toutes deux déjà été à l’origine, par le passé, de séismes d’une violence extrême.
Even though Mexico is the US’s top trade partner, the fate of the pact underpinning that relationship is uncertain.
Bien loin de l'image popularisée par Disney, l'unique portrait réalisé du vivant de Pocahontas éclaire la manière dont les Anglais voyaient les peuples autochtones et justifiaient leur projet colonial.
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.
Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.
The newly named director of national intelligence is a Trump political ally who has no experience in national security. A veteran of the field says it matters who holds the job.
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
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Associate Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; University of Southern California
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Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer, Agents of Change program, Department of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Philosophy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum; Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences