If Harris wins, election officials and experts worry Trump and his supporters will not peacefully accept that outcome.
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Nicole Carter: What Agnes Gray Elementary School means to West Paris
Over the years it has become harder and harder for small rural communities to hold onto their traditions — even their identities. And nowhere is this more apparent than in West Paris.
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How reported threats in North Carolina trace to Trump-fueled misinformation
Americans are experiencing the real-world consequences of throwing conspiracy theories into a tense situation — again.
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Projection: Why Trump accuses people of wrongdoing he himself committed
Candidates use psychological strategies to win support and to cast their rivals in a negative light. In projection, people seek to lessen their own faults by calling out these faults in others.
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Elliott Epstein: Perhaps America could use some more ‘gibush’
Israel has an intense communal, can-do spirit that keeps the country united and its economy innovative
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Accept our king, our god — or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.
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Seven times people discovered the Americas — and how they got here
Columbus’ was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.
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Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
Many U.S. states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer — and even more fraught — history in Latin America.
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As war expands, Netanyahu thinks he’s winning
The dramatic, incendiary developments of recent weeks come at a possible turning point for Israel’s wily prime minister — and for the region.
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Iran’s strikes on Israel are the latest sign that the conflict in the Middle East is spiraling, presenting rising global security threats
The Middle East is in much more volatile situation than it was a year ago, with conflict expanding far outside of fighting primarily between Israel and Hamas post-Oct. 7, 2023.