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Professor Andrew Delbanco gave this year's annual Jefferson Lecture, titled, "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future," where he addressed reparations for slavery in the U.S.

The bad news: Colleges are still seeing enrollment declines, and many haven't made up much ground after the pandemic's dramatic drops.

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Journalist Robert Draper says the GOP's embrace of extremism opened the door to fringe actors, who've become among the party's most influential leaders. His new book is Weapons of Mass Delusion.

Competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi received a hero's welcome on her return to Tehran Wednesday, after competing in South Korea without wearing a mandatory headscarf required of Iranian female athletes

Word Up! returns to The Old Globe's outdoor Copley Plaza for the first program in 2022. This pandemic-era project of the Globe's AXIS and Arts Engagement division features Mad Libs-inspired collaboration, audience participation, interdisciplinary creativity and lots of special guests. Hosted by the Globe's Laura Zee, Sunday's program will be a playwriting collaboration featuring the South West Asian and North African (SWANA) communities in the region, including guest teaching artist Farah Dinga and student and former Afghan refugee Wahida Hamdard — plus other guests. Most Word Up! events feature a live DJ or musical performance, too. Regulars Ric Scales, Miki Vale and Valeria Vega will also appear. The in-person event will be concurrently livestreamed on the Globe's YouTube channel. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS (from San Diego Weekend Arts Events) Related links: The Old Globe Arts Engagement on Instagram The Old Globe Arts Engagement on Facebook

An Iranian female competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation's mandatory headscarf covering.

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn: from elite soldier overseas to waging "spiritual war" in America. With the Associated Press, how Flynn emerged as a leading conspiracy theorist, from QAnon to "Stop the Steal" and his ties to Christian nationalism.

Experts in Russian doctrine worry that as the war in Ukraine gets more desperate, Russia might be tempted to detonate a nuclear weapon.

Proposition 28 would roughly double the amount of funding California gives schools for arts and music education.