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Back to SearchHow Increased Autism Diagnoses Are Changing the Way We Think About Neurodiversity
Autism spectrum disorder can be found in 2.2% of the population, but for women and girls, as well as many adults, autism is a diagnosis that is often…
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What’s a Photograph That Stands Out in Your Mind?
Kathy Ryan was the longtime director of photography at the New York Times Magazine. For nearly four decades, Ryan shaped the way we witnessed history…
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Clint Smith on Telling the Truth About America’s History
In an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Trump targeted the Smithsonian, demanding that “improper ide…
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What Are Your Hopes for the Next Pope?
Funeral rites are underway for Pope Francis, who died this week at age 88 after leading the Roman Catholic Church for 12 years. Hundreds of thousands…
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Alison Gopnik and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Why We’re Not Paying Enough Attention to Caregiving
Caregiving is the most universal of human acts. But also one of the most invisible. While caring for a child, parent or loved one can be meaningful, …
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Are We Facing a Constitutional Crisis?
Is the United States in the talked-about and feared constitutional crisis? President Trump and his administration are increasingly ignoring federal c…
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KQED Youth Takeover: Oakland Ballet Explores Immigrant Stories From Angel Island
Ellis Island might have been a welcoming place for many immigrants to the United States, but Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay tells a more troub…
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Fetal Personhood as 'The New Civil War over Reproduction'
Overturning Roe v. Wade was never the end goal of the anti-abortion movement, says UC Davis law professor and leading abortion historian Mary Ziegler…
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Trump Targets California International Students and Higher Ed
More than a thousand international college students – scores of them in California – have had their visas terminated without explanation under new Tr…
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KQED Youth Takeover: Deliberative Democracy Puts Dialogue and Reason at Center of Decision Making
In today’s intensely polarized climate, political conversations can quickly devolve into heated arguments. But a process called deliberative democrac…
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