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Thinking About Personal Statements in the Age of AI
johnw@mcsweeneys.net
Heres a question that I think lots of people in higher education may be confronting over the next few weeks: What should we do with the personal statement for graduate admissions? Ive now seen multi ...[Continue Reading]
Inside Higher Ed
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Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. in 2025, study shows
Cara Tabachnick, Anna Schecter
Murders plummeted more than 20% from the year before, the single-largest one-year drop on record and 2025's might be the lowest murder rate in the U.S. since 1900, a studyreleased Thursday by the ...[Continue Reading]
CBS News
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Former passenger-vehicle ferry fined for 2024 fuel spill in Charlottetown Harbour, documents show
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The owner of the MV Ancier has been fined for a fuel spill that happened in Charlottetown Harbour two years ago, CBC News has learned. The former passenger-vehicle ferry, once known as CTMA Vacanc ...[Continue Reading]
CBC News
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A Fraudulent Scheme: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells
Mark Olalde, Nick Bowlin
The state of New Mexico is accusing three Texas oil executives of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to pocket revenue from hundreds of oil and gas wells in New Mexico and offload the cost of plugging ...[Continue Reading]
ProPublica
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Why Mamdani Should Oppose Kathy Hochul's Protest Ban
Nasreen Abd Elal
Politics / January 22, 2026 The proposed restriction on protests outside houses of worship is rooted in anti-Palestinian bias and would give Israeli apartheid a free pass. Mamdani should reject it. ...[Continue Reading]
Thenation.com
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We Need Radical Abundance
Keir Milburn
Politics / January 22, 2026 If we want abundance we have to ask, an abundance of what exactly, and produced under what economic logic? Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, speaks duri ...[Continue Reading]
Thenation.com
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