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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Wide-ranging social commentary in Peele's 'Wendell & Wild' pillories privatization, school-to-prison pipeline

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Released by Netflix in October 2022, Wendell & Wild is a delightful stop-motion horror animation and none-too-subtle commentary on the...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Polisci papers track Ukraine war to Arctic, UN, internet

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The war in Ukraine occasioned several papers at last weekend's annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association (NEPSA)...
Monday, April 24, 2023

No right to physician aid in dying, Mass. high court holds, rejecting analogy to same-sex marriage right

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In 2017, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and D.C. residents protest to protect "death with dignity" law from congressional med...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Sport researchers examine athlete dissent online

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Spencer Peltz , my brother, has published a co-authorship, " Athletes’ Displaced Dissent on Social Media: Triggering Agents, Message St...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Lissens presents EU data protection, IoT research

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Sylvia Lissens, a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the KU Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies in Belgium, presented part of h...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Paraguay remembers Pres. Rutherford 'Baller' Hayes; still scarred by 1860s war, Paraguay nears election

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RBH & I at the Museo Municipal de Villa Hayes , Paraguay. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 UPDATE, May 10: The incumbent Colorado Party p...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Fighting shatters peace, rips at progress in Sudan

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"Our tea lady" and me in Khartoum, November 2020. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 I'm saddened by the outbreak of conflict in ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Dominion v. Fox News evidences 'actual malice,' also shows how standard has fueled misinformation

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(UPDATE, April 18, at 5:17 p.m.: NBC News reported a half hour ago that Dominion and Fox News reached a $787.5m settlement.) CBS Sunday Mor...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Malaysian court upholds civil liability for security firm after employee-bodyguard shot, killed own client

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With attenuated liability theories arising from contemporary gun violence proliferating—in lawsuits against parents , schools , sellers , a...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Students join labor demands for living wage at RISD

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(UPDATE, April 18: Labor and RISD reached a tentative agreement, Wazlavek tweeted last night.) The Rhode Island School of Design —famous al...