| Paris can learn others’ lessons in loss after Notre Dame fire Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:57 PM PDT ![Paris can learn others' lessons in loss after Notre Dame fire]( "Paris can learn others' lessons in loss after Notre Dame fire") As dawn broke over Notre Dame on Tuesday, small fires still smoldered. "I've noticed that this has prompted a coming together, a sense of solidarity," says Alain Meunier, who had stopped on his way to work to take a smartphone picture of Notre Dame. Other cities around the world, from Rio de Janeiro to New York to Warsaw, have lost symbolic cultural buildings over the years.
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| Is America’s media divide destroying democracy? Posted: 16 Apr 2019 12:55 PM PDT ![Is America's media divide destroying democracy?]( "Is America's media divide destroying democracy?") Sometimes it seems as if the deepest divide in American politics is not so much between Republicans and Democrats as between voters who watch Fox News, and those who don't. For instance, 84% of Fox-viewing Republicans support President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a border wall, according to a March Navigator Research survey. Splits like this have led to a lot of recent critical examination of Fox's role in the modern U.S media ecosystem.
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| At a new university, Syrian Kurds build their own future Posted: 16 Apr 2019 12:36 PM PDT ![At a new university, Syrian Kurds build their own future]( "At a new university, Syrian Kurds build their own future") For Fatmah, a Kurdish college student in northern Syria, it had been an especially difficult choice. Kurdish nationalists refer to much of the territory under their control as Rojava – the western part of a Greater Kurdistan that also encompasses parts of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
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| The rebirth of Notre Dame’s purpose Posted: 16 Apr 2019 11:43 AM PDT ![The rebirth of Notre Dame's purpose]( "The rebirth of Notre Dame's purpose") When tourists flock to Paris, they often gather at the Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, Montmartre, or Champs-Élysées. Yet the most popular gathering place – at about 13 million visitors a year – has been Notre Dame Cathedral. Its near-destruction by fire on April 15 helped to prove why.
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