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The Declaration of Independence states that all men have certain "unalienable rights." From Mark Twain to Jon Stewart, satirists have picked apart that guarantee and what politicians do to honor it.
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A group of Latino high school students in Chicago didn't feel represented by a local museum. They successfully petitioned the museum, resulting in a new exhibit reflecting local Latino history.
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If you consider yourself a baker and you celebrate Mardi Gras, making a king cake is a rite of passage.
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Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster. -
Curators and museum leadership typically form and select exhibits. It was high school students though that helped change an exhibit about Latino culture in Chicago. Aqui en Chicago is now open.
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Double Dutch is experiencing a comeback. The jump rope style, which involves two ropes turned in opposite directions, has been kept alive in the Black community.
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In Jewish tradition, after someone dies, the anniversary of their death is marked by lighting a yahrzeit candle. It comes in a stubby glass holder. In some families, that old glass found a new use.
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Bad Bunny delivered a joyful 13-minute Super Bowl halftime performance with a message of unity as well as pride in Latin American culture at a time when many Latinos in the U.S. feel under attack.
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The Old Burying Ground in Cambridge, Mass., inspired Margaret Atwood as a student at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. -
U.S. figure skating phenom Ilia Malinin did a backflip in his Olympic debut, and another the next day. The controversial move was banned from competition for decades until 2024. -
Rachel Weaver worked for the Forest Service in Alaska where she scaled towering trees to study nature. But in 2006, she woke up and felt like she was being spun in a hurricane. Her memoir is Dizzy. -
Author Chris Jennings talks the apocalyptic religious views that fueled the standoff between federal agents and the family of Randy Weaver — and the use of force rules that made it so deadly.
