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Emlyn Williams’ 1938 play is a kind of Billy Elliot of the Valleys: the old-fashioned but hugely entertaining and affecting story of a Welsh miner’s son who escapes his class-bound home town with the help of a bold schoolteacher Read more

Washburn University has removed a Mao Zedong bust displayed in the political science department following Campus Reform’s report on the object. Read more

Student editors at the Chicago Maroon published a letter of apology for running an op-ed that condemned antisemitism and also removed the piece from their website. Read more

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Mobile classrooms are crossing deserts to reach some of the two million Yemeni children missing school due to the civil war Read more

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