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MIAMI GARDENS, FL – FEBRUARY 01: Rapper Kanye West performs at the Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Fiesta Concert outside of Dolphin Stadium on February 1, 2007 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Kanye West pepsi smash concert 73045496mh067_pepsi_smash_c contributor united states 2007 frank micelotta

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Alysa Liu

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By Becky Rosenberg Mar 1, 2026
Women's figure skating individual finals have taken the spotlight with Alysa Liu’s recent return to the sport leading to the first U.S. women’s gold since 2002. Read More
democracy center

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By Becky Rosenberg Mar 1, 2026
Mittal drew on her experience at the Department of Justice, describing the scale of the Jan. 6 prosecutions, which involved nearly 1,600 criminal cases. While the events were widely characterized as an unprecedented attack on democratic institutions, the legal system approached them through existing statutory frameworks. Read More
Climate Change

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By Becky Rosenberg Mar 1, 2026
We teach the Dust Bowl as a cautionary tale. In every American history class, we learn how farmers in the 1920s and 1930s tore up millions of acres of native grassland across the Great Plains to plant wheat, how the deep-rooted prairie grasses that held the soil and trapped moisture were replaced by shallow crops and bare fields, and, when drought came in 1930, how the exposed topsoil turned to dust. Read More