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Move it or Lose it: FEMA’s Failings

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Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster in the United States, causing billions in annual economic losses. According to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), 90% of all natural disasters in the United States involve flooding. The NFIP is a federal program created in 1968 that tracks flood-related natural disasters and provides insurance to property owners and renters …

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Segregated Cemeteries: Till Death Do Us Part?

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Here in Seattle, people make pilgrimages to Bruce Lee’s gravesite to pay homage to the icon. Across cultures and religious traditions, burial sites have long held a place of honor, both to celebrate the deceased and to provide a place for the living to “visit” them. Which is why America’s history of segregating the dead is so troubling. Segregated graveyards …

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Face It: Trump Is Selling U.S. Secrets to Enrich Himself

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As the FBI “raided” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago hangout, it set off a firestorm of political reactions, with MAGA pundits and politicians falling all over themselves to decry the “norm-breaking” affront. Never mind that it broke plenty of laws for a former president to abscond with 700 pages of classified documents, including nuclear secrets. As details emerged throughout the month, the defense …

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We Can’t Ignore the Hopi Prophecies

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We Cannot Afford to Ignore the Hopi Prophecies. In December 1992, Thomas Banyacya, a Hopi elder, spoke to the UN General Assembly. He was one of multiple indigenous speakers who addressed the UN’s conference on ethnoclimatology, the study of the climate based on the specific geographic knowledge of local people. Long before An Inconvenient Truth thrust environmental collapse into the …

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Evidence: A Case for Creation and Differences in Gay Brains

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The Biological Factors Behind Sexuality… Though the LGBTQ community has made considerable social progress since the Stonewall Riots, they remain an embattled group, one whose hard-won rights can never be taken for granted. Weeks ago, in his decision overturning Roe V. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear he believes gay marriage and sexual autonomy should not be …

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The People Want Power

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The planet is dying, and people want power. These intertwined truths are the root of the division and violence of modern politics. People want to be in control in the coming apocalypse. On one end of the political spectrum, some see the onslaught of climate-related horrors – increasingly extreme weather, food scarcity, disease, forced migration – and realize that business …