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Preserving ‘Academic Mobility’ for Afghan Students and Refugees

They’ve gone dark: Afghans who helped the U.S. military, trained as American-style journalists and rode the wave of women heading to higher education are destroying the diplomas, transcripts and résumés that prove how they built civil society in the country that the U.S. has left behind.
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OPINION: After Parkland, it takes only a few words to cause a whirlwind of fear

At the restaurant where I work, I see guns all the time, on a customer’s hip or under his shoulder as I clear the tables. It’s so common I don’t think to look twice. But on Feb. 23, nine days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, my high school was the scene of a reported threat that could make even the proudest gun-toting Walla Wallan's stomach drop.
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Voices of the Square: Q&A with Zahra Billoo, civil rights lawyer and Muslim activist

GSS Libre Talks columnist Hannah Shraim interviews CAIR executive director Zahra Billoo about issues facing our nation, including President Trump's moves to ban Muslims from traveling to the U.S., a program that’s targeting Muslim high school students in Maryland as potential community informants, and what she prefers to a really nutritious dinner.
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VIDEO: Teen tackles addiction to technology, Twitter — “people need to be mindful of what they are posting”

As I began to film, I wanted to focus on technology taking away from our everyday lives. We often look right past simple things, such as growing flowers and chirping birds. But the beauty in our world won't last forever, and if everyone is looking down on their smartphones, they're missing their lives passing them by.
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Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’

"Here Today," our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.
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