Closer to Home
What can squatting—occupying otherwise unoccupied buildings without any title, right, or payment—teach us about how cities work?
Closer to Home
Identity
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Confronting the Specter of Cultural Appropriation
From Halloween costumes to haute couture, ethnic foods to movies, the danger of appropriating another culture seems to be everywhere. How do we weigh the difference between celebrating and stealing someone else’s culture?
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Ancestry Tests Pose a Threat to Our Social Fabric
Commercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die.
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Is Your DNA You?
Anthropologists wrestle with the complexities of commercial DNA testing.
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The Myth of Racial Purity in Roman Britain
The science is clear—early London was a multicultural society. Still, some people refuse to believe it.
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Why Aid Remains Out of Reach for Some Rohingya Refugees
Even with the right to health care secured, medical assistance is elusive for urban refugees in India.