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• James Dawes, author of Evil Men, responded at CNN Opinion to the recent video showing a Syrian rebel triumphantly eating the heart of his dead enemy and talked with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about why it’s worth studying atrocities.
• Monica Prasad, author of The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty, argued on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed that government intervention in the U.S. has undermined the development of a European-style welfare state.
• Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, co-author of Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, talked with NPR’s Morning Edition about a new Pew Research report showing that Latino high school graduates are now entering colleges and universities at record rates—higher than those of whites and African Americans.

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May 15: Cicadas Cicadas Cicadas

It’s just about cicada time here on the East Coast, when millions (billions?) of these strange, noisy creatures will make their way up through the dirt, looking for love. They’ve been waiting down there in wingless nymph form, feeding on the dilute sap of plant roots while they undergo the longest juvenile developmental period of any insect. When the ground reaches 64 degrees and they emerge, …