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Topic: The Conversation (page 81)

Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s not just the Amazon that’s ablaze

Claire F.R. Wordley - The Conversation
A television monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange headlines the rate decision of the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The Federal Reserve is cutting its key interest rate for the first time in a decade to try to counter threats ranging from uncertainties caused by President Donald Trump's trade wars to chronically low inflation and a dim global outlook. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Financial advice for recessions

Alexander Kurov - The Conversation
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Nazi-era public charge clause revived

Laurel Leff - The Conversation
FILE -- In this June 11, 2015 file photo, Egypt's Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, center, visits the site of a suicide bombing near the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. In a televised appearance on state and private television, Sunday, March,6, 2016, Abdel-Ghaffar blamed the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic militant group Hamas for the killing last June, of Hisham Barakat, the country’s chief prosecutor who oversaw cases against thousands of Islamists. Abdel-Ghaffar said Hamas trained Brotherhood members in the Gaza Strip for the operation. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) (AP)

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In this Nov 4, 2016 photo, Thai farmers weed an organic rice-field in Buriram, Thailand. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) (AP)

Is organic food really healthier?

Cynthia Curl - The Conversation
In this photo provided by James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey, the Mendenhall glacier outside of Juneau, Alaska in 2007. (James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey via AP) (AP)

The last time the US bought arctic land

William L. Iggiagruk Hensley - The Conversation
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5 ways to shift to sustainable behavior

David J. Hardisty, Katherine White, Rishad Habib - The Conversation
Tourists paddles by near a beach in Bridgetown, Barbados on May 4, 2015. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

History of Barbados: White nationalism

J.M. Opal - The Conversation
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The language gives it away

Fatemeh Torabi Asr - The Conversation
Rock guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970) caught mid guitar-break during his performance at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 1970. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) (vening Standard/Getty Images)

Hendrix's anthem embodied hope & fear

Mark Clague - The Conversation
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French cannabis debate ignores big race

David A Guba Jr. - The Conversation
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How will we travel the world in 2050?

Keith Baker, John Grant - The Conversation
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Members of the military salute as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland on July 7, 2019. - Trump is returning to Washington after spending the weekend at his Bedminster golf resort. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Congress unites over US military budget

Rebecca U. Thorpe - The Conversation
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1993 file photo, American author Toni Morrison is shown at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Her novels, such as 1987's "Beloved," have shone a light on the racial prejudices that have afflicted her homeland. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) (AP)

Toni Morrison's radical ambiguity

Paul Giles - The Conversation
Colin Kaepernick in the new Nike Ad (Instagram/Kaepernick)

"Wokewashing": Companies and good PR

Kim Sheehan - The Conversation
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Megan Rapinoe of the USA lifts the FIFA Women's World Cup Trophy following her team's victory in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France Final match between The United States of America and The Netherlands at Stade de Lyon on July 07, 2019 in Lyon, France. (Getty/Richard Heathcote)

Big brands could help the gender pay gap

Katie Lebel - The Conversation
Police crime-scene tape keeps people away from the brick Roebling Wire Works building, background, in Trenton, N.J., hours after a shooting broke out there at an all-night art festival June 17, 2018. (AP/Mike Catalini)

Mass shootings not becoming more common

Christopher J. Ferguson - The Conversation
In this photo taken May 19, 2015, Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Gilbert shows no signs of memory problems but volunteered for a new kind of scan as part of a study peeking into healthy brains to check for clues about Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Two encouraging Alzheimer's studies

Steven DeKosky, Todd Golde - The Conversation
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

Gov, people at odds on immigration

Mariano Sana - The Conversation
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A migrant woman and her daughter, who are taking part in a caravan towards the US, cuddle up to rest during a stop in their journey in Mexico City, on November 6, 2018. (Getty/Alfredo Estrella)

Canada must not be complicit

Sean Rehaag - The Conversation
President Donald Trump speaks about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Asylum restrictions: Trump cannot change

Jean Lantz Reisz - The Conversation
Flowers and a Virgin Mary painting adorn makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, August 4, 2019. (AP/Andres Leighton)

Language of far-right explains violence

Arie Perliger - The Conversation
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Stop blaming video games for massacres

Christopher J. Ferguson - The Conversation
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