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How damaged teeth can reinforce stigma and disadvantage: conversations with street sex workers
Women in street sex work described pain, stigma and barriers to dental care.
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Changing the history curriculum is not enough if English always dominates the classroom – South African study
More inclusive history teaching doesn’t just add new topics to the curriculum, it values the languages of all learners.
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Film festivals take African cultural heritage around the world – and help keep it alive
In these spaces, lifelong relationships can be formed through the love of cinema.
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Along Nigeria’s ‘spiritual highway’, prayer camps create a new urban future
The vast prayer camps challenge stereotypes of Nigerian cities as chaotic, dysfunctional, and driven by religious tension.
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Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before the drought
Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility.
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: a queer slasher about trauma and desire
The characters become immersed in a psychosexual frenzy of self-discovery.
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Why Gaza peace deals keep unravelling
There have been gaps at the centre of every agreement over Gaza since 2025.
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How journalists and communities work together to confront low levels of trust
Although it’s important that journalists practice diligence and deference, communities need to be willing to engage, forgive and voice concern.
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Colorado is facing a housing shortage – building more duplexes and townhomes could be part of the solution
A housing simulator predicts that rezoning for ‘missing middle’ housing could increase Denver’s housing supply by 46%.
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White supremacists spin a Justice Department indictment against a hate-monitoring group to legitimize extremism and expand recruitment
Extremist groups have pointed to the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center as proof that their worldview is correct.
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Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat
Two political scientists explain why Christian nationalist beliefs endure.
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Why social media algorithms send you posts you don’t like
Algorithms on X tend to bring you posts that contradict your values, and it happens more to Democrats than Republicans.